Re: Do you use the W3C RDF validator ?

On 2023-11-21 10:34, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:

> the code behind the W3C RDF validator [1] is old and unmaintained. 

Which concrete RDF syntaxes does the parser conform to? What needs 
maintenance exactly?

>W3C 
> is considering decommissioning that service.

It serves as a reference validator. Or it ought to.

> My first question is: how many people in this community are relying on 
> that service ?

Do you mean the people on this mailing list, noticing this email, 
deciding to respond?

> My intuition is that the answer is "not many", but if I'm 
> wrong, we might reconsider our decision.

How many would suffice to keep it around?

> My second question is: for those who use that service or a similiar one 
> : would a purely client-size option be acceptable ? In other words, are 
> you using it exclusively in a browser, or are you accessing it as an API 
> from other programs?

There are times where I needed to pass my data through a bunch of 
validators to narrow down an issue.

Are you considering to develop a client-side parsing? Perhaps along the 
lines of JSON-LD playground?

-Sarven
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