In response to yesterday's musings on RDF Ziv Caspi is working to educate me on RDF using the analogy of RDF as a LINK tag on steroids. Very cool.
Sam Ruby notes that
Meta-data has numerous detractors, but the only appropriate and effective response is Forward Motion.Yeah, RDF may in the end may be useless to me, but what good does it do anybody if I try to dump a bucket of cold water on it? Everybody has the right to innovate, even the W3C. No, the masses of people who use the web won't care about meta-data, but they will care about, and want, the features and benefits it enables.
And deus_x comments:
More than once I've decided I could do something better than someone else, only to discover that I was just following in that someone's footsteps down the line and rediscovering all the pitfalls. But sometimes, I do demonstrate that I'm smart too, and figure out something new.[deus_x]Yes! Don't toss it 'til you grok it. He goes to talk about two more of my favorite technologies, SVG and XSLT. One reason Aggie is so small is the expressiveness and power of XSLT, and that fact that .NET includes an XSLT processor in the FCL. I am putting together an Aggie theory of operation article that I will post in the next day or two that goes into this in detail.
I really wanted, at a minimum, to have unit tests in place before putting Aggie up on SourceForge, but at this point the interest and TODO items are growing quickly. So I am going ahead and applying to put Aggie into SourceForge. I will post a notification here when it's approved.
Note: the UTF-8 encoding issue that Ingve points out should be fixed in RC4, I just need some international feeds to test it against. (There's that need for unit tests again... :) )