Re: Current status, potential for upgrade?

Danny Ayers wrote:
> I'd like to humbly request the validator be updated to reflect the
> current Recommendations (I believe the key part would be upgrading
> ARP/Jena to the latest version). I'll be happy to help with any code
> changes if necessary.

I'm not sure this is as simple. When upgrading IsaViz to Jena 2.1 (from 
2.0-beta-1), I had to make minor changes to the source code to reflect 
changes in the Jena API w.r.t typed literal handling of xml:lang.

Just replacing the current Jena JARs by newer ones might work though; 
IIRC, the changes I had to make to IsaViz were just about RDF 
serialization, not parsing.

Emmanuel


> My request is prompted in part by two separate mailing list threads
> which have used the validator as a reference - one on
> www-rdf-interest@w3.org, relating to xml:lang, the other is on
> rss-dev@yahoogroups.com (and everywhere else!) relating to RSS 1.1.
> 
> There's also a (considerably lower priority) feature request I'd like
> to make - have the validator auto-check for an <rdf:RDF> root.  I'd
> suggest this as an overridable default. The false negative which is
> given when the checkbox option is overlooked has already misled
> testers of RSS 1.1 instance data.
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny.
> 


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