[Zope] RDF and Zope

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@mitretek.org
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:49:53 -0400


Take a look at http://www.xmlnews.org/.  This is an xml-based format for doing
news syndication.  Apparently a few providers are already using it.

Thomas Passin

From: Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu>

>Hi everyone,
>
>I've spend the last couple hours trying to wrap my brain around the W3C's
>RDF spec. I actually just finished reading Tim Berners-Lee's new book
>which mentions RDF.
>
>Anyway, I'm wondering what, if any, relevance this has for Zope. Is there
>anyone who would be willing to offer some comments? My own thinking began
>as I considered how to display news headlines from different sites on my
>Zope site. After doing some reading I learned that RDF seems to provide
>some mechanism for making that easier. I really don't understand it yet,
>but it seems like some important work. I'd love to hear more about it from
>someone more familiar with RDF, XML, and related Python tools than I.
>
>-Tim
>
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