Xarg blog Archive

I am learning about RDF and RSS which I had never paid much attention to before. I downloaded the dmoz directory in RDF to play with. I think the catagorization and link datasets would make good test data for OpenACS (and PostgreSQL for that matter). Ben Adida pointed me at the Redland RDF parser which conveniently already has a Tcl Binding.

Unfortunately, most of the RSS feeds are not very clean so a strict parser might not really work for what I really want to do (which is build an aggregation service to pull together all the different OpenACS development sites bug trackers, blogs, etc). Since we would be writing the code to generate the RDF data we could just make sure we do it right and just use a strict parser. On the other hand I could see getting feeds from other sources that were not so clean. It's a common problem and it looks like people are thinking about how to attack it.

I liked the Mozilla RDF and XUL Bugzilla example.