- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 03:40:15 +0200
Geoffrey Sneddon On 09-05-16 21.38: > On 16 May 2009, at 07:08, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Geoffrey Sneddon Fri May 15 14:27:03 PDT 2009 >> >>> On 15 May 2009, at 18:25, Shelley Powers wrote: >>> >>> > One of the very first uses of RDF, in RSS 1.0, for feeds, is >>> still > in existence, still viable. You don't have to take my word, >>> check it > out yourselves: >>> > >>> > http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ >>> >>> Who actually treats RSS 1.0 as RDF? Every major feed reader just >>> uses a generic XML parser for it (quite frequently a non-namespace >>> aware one) and just totally ignores any RDF-ness of it. >> >> What does it mean to "treat as RDF"? [ ... snip ... ] > > I mean using an RDF processor, and treating it as an RDF graph. > Everything just creates from an XML stream (or object model) a bunch > of items with a certain title, date, and description, and acts on that > (and parses it out in a format specific manner, so it creates the same > sort of item for, e.g., Atom) ? it doesn't actually use an RDF graph > for it. If you can find any widely used software that actually treats > it as an RDF graph I'd be interested to know. "OpenLink Data Explorer" [1] treats the W3 stream[2] as RDF. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=openlink [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/home.rss -- leif halvard silli
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