Article:		The Semantic Blog
Subject:		Hmm..
Date:		2003-04-16 17:05:21
From:		Danny Ayers
Interesting piece. But talking about blogs and semantics, where is the reference to RSS 1.0, which is RDF, which is the primary language of the W3C's Semantic Web initiative? Put this material into an RDF store and it's queryable. The bonus is that you can query it alongside any other RDF you like, and you're not limited to XPath-style queries. I absolutely agree "We don't need a grand ontology in order to be able to mark up things like code fragments.". But we do need to mark them up in a way that is sharable, which means it should be well-defined and uambiguous. Bunging one kind of XML into another and hoping for the best may work in the RSS+XHTML case, but I doubt whether this approach likely to take much reuse. IMHO, if you want to use XPath for queries, then why not construct the tree at the client side by getting the (X)HTML data from the link provided in the feed. The same end could be achieved using an RSS 1.0 feed and a http get, and what's more it would have well-defined semantics and build on the existing web, rather than steering around the edge.

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• Problem solved
  2003-05-06 07:07:44 Danny Ayers [Reply]
  
  The ambiguity problem of RSS 2.0 + XHTML can be easily fixed :
  http://purl.org/stuff/ssr