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Just a quick screenshot. Remember our use of SKOS in MetWare ?\nSteffen has been working on creating integrated\nJSF pages, while I am focusing on autogeneration of blobs. The below screenshot is\nsuch a blob, called a UI component in JSF, which allows easy embedding the the aggregations Steffen is working on.

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Autogeneration of web content benefits greatly from well defined input, including data types.\nMetWare uses XML Schema Data Types\nfor this, as mentioned ealier when I briefly\nmentioned generation of search pages. That example showed the creation of range input on xsd:integer types. The below screenshot\nshows the different output for xsd:string (input text box) and xsd:boolean:

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Now, this example is not really shocking, but MetWare defines additional types, for example an InChI data type:

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<simpleType name=\"inchi\">\n  <restriction base=\"string\">\n    <pattern value=\"InChI=1/.*\"/>\n  </restriction>\n</simpleType>\n
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This allows me to tweak the HTML output created by the JSF pages to include microformats to support\nthe Sechemtic userscript (see also\ndoi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-487).

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Or, to provide a drop down box, listing the allowed values:

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<simpleType name=\"deviceVendor\">\n  <restriction base=\"string\">\n    <enumeration value=\"BioCrates\"/>\n    <enumeration value=\"Bruecker\"/>\n  </restriction>\n</simpleType>\n
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References

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Willighagen, E. L., O’Boyle, N. M., Gopalakrishnan, H., Jiao, D., Guha, R., Steinbeck, C., & Wild, D. J. (2007). Userscripts for the Life Sciences. BMC Bioinformatics, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-8-487 CrossRef Scholia
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