RDFa support in TopBraid Composer

We have added RDFa support to our semantic development tool TopBraid 
Composer [1].  See my blog entry [2] for some details.

In general, I found it quite easy to write a parser for RDFa (from 
scratch and without any prior knowledge of RDFa).  Only the special 
cases such as the handling of <META> tags caused some delays.

We quickly ran into the problem that real-world web pages may not be 
well-formed XHTML.  We therefore provide an option to use an HTML Tidy 
preprocessor (JTidy) to bring the HTML into a more regular form.  This 
may still require cleaning up the HTML but is a good heuristic approach.

I hope the work on the RDFa standardization keeps moving as this is a 
potentially very important missing link in the Semantic Web space.

Regards,
Holger

TopQuadrant, Inc.

[1] http://www.topbraidcomposer.com
[2] 
http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/2006/09/rdfa-support-in-topbraid-composer.html

Received on Friday, 22 September 2006 17:08:35 UTC