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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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Monthly Archives: April 2003
RSS in XHTML
On the Syndication list, Doug Ransom proposed a way of embedding RSS into XHTML: <html> <head> <rss:channel xmlns="a new namespace"> whatever elements you need</rss:channel> </head> <body> <rss:item> <h2><rss:title>My Item</rss:title></h2> <p>Date:<rss:date>2003-20-01</rss:date> <rss:description>Today we went fishing</rss:description> down at the wharf. 100 more … Continue reading
Making XML Extensible with RDF
I wrote an article recently which generated some traffic on (and off) the XML-DEV list. Some people commented without reading it of course, but others asked interesting questions: Hmm… does that fable mirror an actual use case? I suspect there … Continue reading
Edgar Codd Dies
Edgar Codd, who formulated the rules decribing the normalised forms of relational databases died last week. Thousands of developers use the results of his excellent thinking every day without realising it. It’s not an understatement to say he made a … Continue reading
PlaceTime URI Space
PlaceTime is another ongoing project of mine: PlaceTime.com is intended to be a URI space containing URIs that represent places and times.These URIs can serve as common identifiers for a wide variety of applications such as genealogical research or calendaring. … Continue reading
US Government Namespace Policies
The US government have published a draft of an interesting document: Recommended XML Namespace which will be a policy document for defining namespace URIs. It’s a good, in-depth review of the various possibilities such as using a single namespace vs. … Continue reading
Full Content Feeds
Bill Kearney sums up some of the reasons why I don’t include full content in my RSS feeds. One reason he didn’t cover is that my pages are basic XHTML anyway – a full content feed would be virtually a … Continue reading
7 Habits of an AntiBlogger
Think before posting Write for tomorrow Google is a means not an end Traffic isn’t everything Write clean, valid markup Add value, not links Memes don’t need your help
Blog Culture
This Medley posting caught my eye: some guy, who apparently hasn’t even been weblogging a year yet, has decided to proclaim to all and sundry that if you don’t follow his set of 10 rules, then you’re ‘highly annoying.’ Good … Continue reading
