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What is DataSheets?

  • A new browser language that looks remarkably like CSS.
  • You link to one or more .dss files within the <head> tag
    • <link rel="datasheet" type="text/dss" href="mainblog.dss"> {proposed}
  • In DSS you define where to get the Data as easy as you describe where to get the image to put into background-image: url(); within CSS
    • You get data with the property data: url()
  • You inject the data into the DOM using selectors #table1 { data: url(); }
  • DSS provides templating using DOM and Shadow DOM. The HTML remains valid and not disturbed with mixins.
  • You can consume all sorts of data. DSS will consume JSON, XML, CSV and other
  • You can semantically define the data using existing standards.
    • You can also define an element using selectors to attribute metadata div p span.person { schema: url(http://schema.org/); type: "Person" }

Goals

  • To create the DataSheets language - DSS.
  • To work with HTML, CSS Selectors, DOM, URI to create a language that can bind data to an HTML document and it's elements
  • To negate the exclusivity of JavaScript as the only means to consuming data and dynamically applying it to elements.
  • To facilitate the separation of 'HTML and Data' as 'HTML and CSS' has done.
  • To facilitate web components and data components with Shadow DOM and Web Platform
  • To aid in the creation of async enabled HTML by use of the async, as in <input type='submit' defer />
  • To bring the ease of CSS to data binding and templating
  • To facilitate the consumption of data and Linked Data
  • To facilitate semantic data
  • To facilitate the browser's ability to understand data binding, storage and related functionality

Some Benefits

  • Expose data consumption to a community for which JavaScript is not required
  • Smaller/Cleaner HTML
  • No mixing of data inside of HTML (HTMLTextElement)
  • Providing a simplistic consumption strategy for all types of data and HTML templating
  • Let the browser do the work for async forms
  • Let the browser do the work in getting data and applying it to the DOM
  • Data and Elements can be semantically described without other complicated semantic expressions
  • A separate caching strategy for HTML, CSS and the Data would be possible

Topics

Cross pollination Topics

  • HTML <form defer> or <form async> syntax (async processing)
  • HTML <a defer> or <a async> syntax (async processing)
  • Consuming JSON
  • Consuming XML
  • Consuming Linked Data
  • Consuming Schemas (JSON-LD, XSD, other)
  • Semantic templating with RDF?
  • Consuming other types of formats? (Markdown, CSV, microXML)

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