Whilst dropping in on the recently revamped Cocoon Wiki, I noticed that Paul Ford has added a page there, noting that he's going to try, "over the next year, to implement Ftrain.com in Cocoon". Should be interesting to watch. Ftrain is one of my favourite sites. Having implemented a (very) little language for working with … Continue reading FTrain to use Cocoon? →

There's been a lot of discussion about Mark Pilgrims latest article on XML.com. See, to pick a few examples, Dorothea, Marks follow-up comments and those of Dare Obasanjo. I thought I'd comment briefly on Marks' suggestion that "the ability to parse ill-formed feeds becomes a competitive advantage". In short, he's right. And it doesn't only … Continue reading It Ain’t Just RSS, or even HTML →

I've added another sidebar to my Tools for XML-Deviants. This one just provides quick access to the archives and search function of all of the public W3C mailing lists. It's just a quick hack using an XSLT stylesheet to process the W3C archive homepage which happily is XHTML. Personally I find this preferable to keeping … Continue reading Quick Hack: W3C List Sidebar →

I'm unearthing bits and pieces of code that I've got lying around my hard drives at home, so I can finally finish them off and post them to the net. The first bit out the door is actually nothing new: these tools have just been languishing, somewhat abandoned, on some free web space I was … Continue reading Tools for XML Deviants →

Currently wondering whether this work might be usable for manipulating simple FOAF graphs, or whether I should just stick with the RDF query language built into Jena, plus the hooks provided in the API to add custom Selectors. I find myself thinking about a FOAF document as a graph: the foaf:Person being edited is the … Continue reading RDF Graphs, XPath and the Jena API →

I was quite chuffed to see the FOAF-a-Matic mentioned in this Guardian Online article by Ben Hammersley today, although it was slightly alarming to see him mention Mark 2 which is still in very early beta. I'll probably spend this evening hacking on it some more. This is one of the few pieces of code … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic in the Guardian →