fyi, Metalink (http://metalinker.org) is a spec for file sharing systems. A doc in its XML format points to locations of a given file, potentially across various protocols - http, ftp, bittorrent etc. If you have a look at "Who's using it?", you'll see it's pretty widely used both by publishers & consumers. For an example, see: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-i386.metalink (that only refers to one instance of the file, but you should get the idea) If you check the source of http://metalinker.org you'll see it's GRDDL-enabled - well, kind-of, I got distracted before getting everything running smoothly (the XSLT should be pretty close, but the W3C GRDDL service throws a peculiar error). I reckon it might offer a potential route to offering fallback sources for schemas etc. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com ~ http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/this_weeks_semantic_web/Received on Friday, 17 October 2008 18:29:41 GMT
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