Re: Yet another RDFa experience

Simone Onofri wrote:
>  > If I understand the problem properly, there is very little that can be
>> done here from our point of view. Indeed, afaik, the RSS specification
>> uses a _restricted_ version of RDF/XML. I think that the fact that my
>> distiller produces something acceptable by the RSS validators is, though
>> flattering:-), just a pure coincidence.
> 
> Good coicidence :-) and yes, this is the problem. I hope there are few
> cases with same issue. I'll continue testing on others things to find.
> 

Well, this is an issue of RSS:-( Put it another way, RSS is _not_ a good
use case for RDFa:-( It is a good example for GRDDL because a
specialized GRDDL transform for RSS has an exact control over the output
format.

I.


>> tomorrow, I would upgrade the underlying RDFLib package which would
>> produce a slightly different RDF/XML serialization (though identical in
>> the RDF sense) that would not pass an RSS validator any more.Ie, I
>> think Fabien is right that this is not possible with a generic
>> extractor/distiller/parser. :-(
> 
> Thanks for reply, Ivan.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simone
> 
>> Ivan
>>

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Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 08:52:10 UTC