- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:12:22 -0500
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
In August of last year I posted a set of requirements [1] for a utility to help me log my daily events given the varied documents I typically type this stuff into. FYI: Here's the present small script I use to update personal and work logs. Disclaimer: there's no RDF or RSS involved! In thinking about this, the simple fact is that I'm most comfortable typing stuff into my shell, and maintaining data in xhtml. From that, and for both of those logs, it's easy to generate RSS 1.0. Why do I like the xhtml? <smile/> It's what I'm used to, and it allows me to correct things. For instance, I felt that typing in titles is a chore so getTitle(url) does a decent job of getting a resources title. However, it doesn't work that well on fragment ID's (e.g., blog entries) because there's typically no correspondence between the id and the "title" of that entry. (Adopting a convention for this would be rather nice.) In that case, when I'm actually editing the xhtml in a xhtml editor, I fix the title manually. (If I could edit style XHTML+XML/RDF in an xhtml editor, this might change! <smile/>) I'm still keeping an eye out for other solutions that are easy to use and based on a more meaningful data model, but thought I'd just share this hack of what I'm using now. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Aug/0130 [2] http://www.w3.org/2003/01/b.py """ This allows me to easily enter data into various logs from the command line. For example: 'b http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/diffmk/refentry.html w misc Noted ^' results in '<li>030121: misc] Noted <a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/diffmk/refentry.html">diffmk</a>.</li>' This script can be easily extended for new "schemes" that parse the input and output it into a specified format. """
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