Y. B. NormalZiv Caspi can't keep his mouth shut.A Comment on XML Namespaces and RDFXML- August 19, 2003 In response to my previous post, Danny writes: Looking at your ugliness criticism, it all seems to be directed at the use of XML namespaces rather than RDF per se. It has pretty well been decided that Atom will support these, so it's hardly RDF's fault. Note too that this is a maximal example - practically all the elements used in practice would be those in the Atom namespace, rather than their counterparts in DC etc. Any equivalence would be stated at a schema level. I'm not entirely sure I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/19.html#a122 A Useless Comment on Atom 0.2, RDF Style- August 14, 2003 Some people have suggested that Atom could be made more RDF-friendly; others object. Most helpfully, we now have a suggested RDF version of the Atom 0.2 example. After looking at it, all I can say is how ugly. It's not that I don't like RDF. I actually do. RDFXML, OTOH, ITD . Two things are apparent: Syntax-wise, XML namespaces are seriously flawed. In every reasonable language (programming language, but the principle works the same for languages people speak) one has a way of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/14.html#a121 The Economics of Application Installation- August 9, 2003 Sean McGrath writes in ITWorld: In my mind's eye, I see an installation system based on Unix's chroot concept (for establishing virtual hierarchies for applications) and Unix's symbolic link concept (for managed duplication). I see a world in which every Java application has its own JVM, its own JDK, its own copy of everything all in a nice tidy directory - a truly self contained world. Why not It would waste a few gigabytes In the time it has taken you to read this article you have probably..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/09.html#a120 URI != URL- August 9, 2003 In a comment to my post on Atom 0.2, Sam notes that the <link> element is a URI, not a URL. Thanks, Sam, I didn't notice it. Now that I have, it looks wrong to me. There's a tendency in our industry to treat URIs and URLs as if they're the same thing, or at least very similar. There's also a common thinking that "a URI is everything a URL is, only a bit more general, so let's use that instead". I agree with neither. On the Difference of URIs and URLs To explain why, here are the two..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/09.html#a119 TrackBack for Radio- August 8, 2003 I have enabled TrackBack for Radio. Let's test if it works.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/08.html#a118 Atom 0.2- August 8, 2003 Atom 0.2 is out. Although not an official spec, it looks like it's now solid enough to comment for people who are, shall we say, wiki-shy. So here's mine. Choice of Top-Level Element Atom 0.2, unlike RSS 2.0, has <feed> as its top element. While this is fine if all you want to use Atom for is blog notifications, it's too restricting for future growth. For example, it doesn't handle cases in which several feeds are held in a single container. (For example, one can think of an Atom...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106548/2003/08/08.html#a117 |