This seems relevant to the current AX discussion.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Wahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 02:34 PM Pacific Standard Time To: ID Schemas Subject: [Idschemas] FYI Schemat Consumer Today we (Informed Control Inc.) packaged up the source code for Schemat Consumer, a small, open source, proof of concept library for attribute type metadata parsing. The Schemat Consumer provides applications in an identity metasystem with a simple Java API for retrieving the metadata of URI-named attribute types. (It is intended for applications which are not already RDF-aware, and just need to get additional details on unrecognized identity attributes.) SchematConsumer sc = SchematConsumer.getInstance(); // ... IAttributeTypeMetadataClasses iatmc = sc.findAttributeTypeMetadataFromSubjectUri(new URI(attribute_type)); CommonAttributeTypeMetadata c = new CommonAttributeTypeMetadata(iatmc); The CommonAttributeTypeMetadata implements get-methods for a subset of the metadata elements defined by W3C, Dublin Core, Higgins and OpenID AX: String label = c.getLabel(); // get display label for the attribute type String comment = c.getComment(); // get display comment for the attribute type List seealso = c.getSeeAlsoUriStringsList(); // get URIs of 'see also' boolean isequiv = c.isEquivalentToUri(another_attribute_type); // test are two attribute types equivalent? List acq_uris = c.getAcquisitionUriStringsList(); // get URIs where to acquire values of this attribute List auth_uris = c.getAuthorityUriStringsList(); // get URIs of authorities for this attribute String example = c.getValueExampleString(); // get String example value of this attribute HigginsValuePropertyDatatype v = c.getHigginsValuePropertyDatatype(); if (v != null) { String pattern = v.getPatternString(); // get regular expression of value syntax } Future versions are anticipated to implement the full set of Identity Schemas metadata in http://idschemas.idcommons.net/moin.cgi/MetaData Applications can also request an XHTML fragment describing the attribute, or an entire schema collection of attributes. Schemat Consumer wraps the Jakarta HTTP core client library and the HP Labs Jena ARP2 RDF parser. Currently it implements the http and file URI schemes to retrieve the RDF/XML encoding of metadata, and has a cache of metadata to avoid frequent retrievals and to support offline operations. More info at http://www.ldap.com/1/spec/schema/ont.shtml http://www.ldap.com/1/commentary/wahl/20070407_01.shtml Mark Wahl Informed Control Inc. _______________________________________________ Idschemas mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/idschemas
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