From rssfeeds@jmason.org Wed Sep 25 10:23:21 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31EF16F03 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:20 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:20 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8P80FC18042 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:00:15 +0100 Message-Id: <200209250800.g8P80FC18042@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@example.com From: diveintomark Subject: Light reading Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:00:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/24.html#light_reading Date: 2002-09-24T10:46:15-05:00 - _Phil Ringnalda_: Putting on the brakes[1]. “So, the answer to the question that started this whole project, "what is the RDF in RSS 1.0 good for?" is two things: it's good for someone who has an infinitely large database that can be queried infinitely fast by a schema-aware program, or it's good for writing a schema-aware aggregator that can try to figure out what it should do with new elements that it hasn't seen before. That's actually an interesting project with some potential for success, but at this point I'm sick of the whole thing, so I'll leave that project for someone else.” - _Aaron Swartz_: TRAMP: Makes RDF look like Python data structures[2]. “RDF/XML got you down? Tired of having to go through contortions to deal with data? Want to write Python and be standards-compatible at the same time? Need a module to implement the psuedo-code you had on your slides? TRAMP may or may not be the answer to these problems!” Complete with an example of parsing FOAF files. - _Dan Connolly_: HyperRDF: Using XHTML Authoring Tools with XSLT to produce RDF schemas[3]. “XML syntax is a little tedious, but lots of people are evidently willing and able of editing it by hand. RDF adds another layer of tedium, but there are still a few folks willing to write it by hand. I make heavy use of reification/quoting in my representation of logical formulas in RDF. This adds another layer of tedium that I find unmanageable, and I have been writing XML/SGML/HTML by hand for 10 years.” Also includes a cogent explanation of the obscure profile attribute in HTML. [1] http://philringnalda.com/archives/002330.php [2] http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/tramp [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/