Re: RDFa support in TopBraid Composer

Holger,

Fantastic news, thanks for the update!

I've blogged this at:
http://rdfa.info/2006/09/22/rdfa-in-topbraid-composer/

If you have any specific feedback, please don't hesitate to send it along.

-Ben

Holger Knublauch wrote:
> 
> 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 18:28:21 UTC