url URL date NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERtNUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _phil ringnalda_ putting on the brakes NUMBER NUMBER so the answer to the question that started this whole project what is the rdf in rss NUMBER NUMBER good for is two things it s good for someone who has an infinitely large database that can be queried infinitely fast by a schema aware program or it s good for writing a schema aware aggregator that can try to figure out what it should do with new elements that it hasn t seen before that s actually an interesting project with some potential for success but at this point i m sick of the whole thing so i ll leave that project for someone else NUMBER _aaron swartz_ tramp makes rdf look like python data structures NUMBER NUMBER rdf xml got you down tired of having to go through contortions to deal with data want to write python and be standards compatible at the same time need a module to implement the psuedo code you had on your slides tramp may or may not be the answer to these problems NUMBER complete with an example of parsing foaf files _dan connolly_ hyperrdf using xhtml authoring tools with xslt to produce rdf schemas NUMBER NUMBER xml syntax is a little tedious but lots of people are evidently willing and able of editing it by hand rdf adds another layer of tedium but there are still a few folks willing to write it by hand i make heavy use of reification quoting in my representation of logical formulas in rdf this adds another layer of tedium that i find unmanageable and i have been writing xml sgml html by hand for NUMBER years NUMBER also includes a cogent explanation of the obscure profile attribute in html NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 