-
Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/iand
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Elliotte Rusty Harold on XML APIs
An interview with Elliote Rusty Harold in which he discusses the question: What’s Wrong with XML APIs? Some APIs, such as DOM, are simply wildly broken and complex in ways that they don’t need to be. Other APIs are too … Continue reading
Norman Walsh on RSS/RDF
Norman Walsh has some words to say about RDF in RSS on his new weblog: My problem is that “almost RDF” formats are a pain in the ass, just like all the other “almost” formats you’ve ever encountered. Yes, the … Continue reading
Parsing FOAF with PHP
I’ve written an article over at Semantic Planet called Parsing FOAF with PHP which shows how to use the rather nifty RAP RDF parser for PHP to parse FOAF files.
Weblog API Multiplexer
After reading this article by Ben Hammersley, it stuck me that what the weblog community needs is a Weblog API Multiplexer service. This would be a service that would accept a ping containing some posting info, e.g. the entry’s trackback … Continue reading
CSS Zen Garden
This site is a brilliant illustration of the power of CSS. It challenges designers to supply a stylesheet with artwork to restyle the site’s home page without changing any HTML. Some of the designs are stunning (The Garden Beneath, Dead … Continue reading
Readability of Element Names
Sam Ruby: While it was greatly maligned, RSS 0.90 really wasn’t all that much different from RSS today. What it got right was that things like titles were represented as <title> instead of <PV name=”title”>.
My RDF Style
I’ve realised that I’m unconciously using a subset of the RDF/XML serialization syntax. My mind must have read the spec, absorbed shedloads of RDF over the years and filtered out all the bits that aren’t immediately useful. Now that we’re … Continue reading
RDF Nodes and Arcs Serialization
Since we’re talking about RDF serialization, what’s the most basic XML serialization possible? One answer might be a serialization of the graph itself: <graph> <!– Here’s my data –> <node id="n1" label="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar" /> <node id="n2" label="RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" /> … Continue reading
More on RDF Syntax
Tim Bray has followed up on his RDF ugly syntax posting yesterday with some more thoughts and analysis of the responses he receieved. It’s a debate that has to happen sooner or later. I think that most of us have … Continue reading
RPV Syntax is Ugly
Tim Bray is moaning about the RDF/XML syntax again. I wrote about this last time and even pointed Tim at my experiment. No response so far. He disingenuously presents two examples of the same set of triples, the first in … Continue reading
