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Tuesday, October 8, 2002

The RDF Tax. My first unkind word about RDF [Don Box's Spoutlet]

Good post. If it wasn't for XUL and Mozilla I'd probably never even bother looking more deeply into RDF as few folks seem to be using it. With things like XSLT, XPath and schema languages like XML Schema and RelaxNG I still fail to grok the point of RDF; I'm sure it could be reinvented in a much neater way building on the other XML standards. I guess the idea is just to use the RDF model and then transform any old XML into the RDF model; maybe adorning XML Schemas (say) with how to do that.


8:52:17 PM    comment []

o-XML link. James Carlyle introduced me to o-XML today. It looks very interesting; one of the closest things to Jelly I've seen so far. It'd actually be pretty easy to implement the o-XML spec using Jelly. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog]

Booo. XML is designed for representing data. Programming languages are designed for representing behavior. Have a look at the examples of oXML and try writing them out again in a dynamic OO language like Python or Ruby. The XML versions are massively overcomplicated and very hard to read (XML has a noisy syntax). Remember, machines have no problems reading code, it's humans you need to think about.

XPlusPlus is another offender.

[Joe's Jelly]

You've got a point Joe. I think for traditional programming tasks like may of o-XML's examples a real programming language is much more applicable.

However for simple declarative XML and SOAP processing, like Cocoon, BPEL4WS. workflow, building, XSLT and the like, using XML so that literal XML can be embedded and new simple declarative languages can be made is cool. Its a fine line between the two. e.g. you could say that a build system like Ant or Maven should really just be a python script. Though I think most Java developers would disagree.


8:44:39 PM    comment []

Any good free web-analysis tools? Preferably ones I can use by just embedding something on a page without having to have access to log files or install something. I was using WebTrends Live which did the job nicely but they seem to have cancelled the non-paying accounts. [Joe's Jelly]

I've started using nedstat which seem pretty reasonable - its that little graph at the bottom of the list of blogs I subscribe to.

I find the maps of where folks are when they read my blog particularly fascinating (a few folks in Sweded seem to like my site and I get more than three times as many hits from Lithuania as I do from Japan). Plus the referrer log seems to say around for a rolling 24 hours, rather than just disappearing once a day like Radio's which is much more handy.


8:11:23 AM    comment []

James Carlyle introduced me to o-XML today. It looks very interesting; one of the closest things to Jelly I've seen so far. It'd actually be pretty easy to implement the o-XML spec using Jelly.
7:58:04 AM    comment []

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