[Final] Views plugins to output node lists as XML/RDF/JSON/XHTML
Abstract
This is a proposal to extend Views with the goal of enabling Drupal semantic data sharing and interop out-of-the-box by writing views style-plugins that can spit out node lists as XML, OPML, RDF, JSON, and XHTML.
For example if you created a view with a list of events and details, you could with one click generate a page containing events in the hCalendar microformat or as items in Exhibit JSON format. Similarly lists of user profiles could be output as FOAF profiles in RDF or in the XHTML hCard format. Lists of forum posts could be output as RDF documents using the SIOC vocabulary. Or a simple list containing books from a personal book collection could be output as OPML. This idea is motivated by the accelerating activity around Semantic Web data sharing. The ultimate realization of this idea would be to enable a Drupal site operator to share datasets from her site already constructed through the Views UI in one of several open and reusable formats based on XML, XHTML or JSON, which would be consumable by other Web agents.
