Brian McBride has published a
tutorial on using his Jena Toolkit
to process RSS
1.0p. Leigh Dodds has published an early version of a Schematron
based validator for RSS 1.0p.
The Jena Toolkit
The Jena Toolkit was
announced a few
weeks ago by Brian McBride of HPLabs in Bristol England. The toolkit
is written in Java and provides a programmer friendly interface to the
RDF model. The tutorial describes how to
read in an RSS 1.0p file and convert it to HTML. The source code for the
tutorial is available as part of the
downloadable
distribution. Brian's summation (see below) also mentions Edd
Dumbill's
proposed change
to the RSS 1.0p logical model. The tutorial (and source code) briefly
describes handling of this alternative model.
The code required to manipulate RSS structures using Jena is small and
intuitive. Jena easily handles the back pointers of items, images etc
found in RSS 1.0p. It provides little help for handling the ordering
of items in RSS 1.0p. The use of Sequences in the proposed change to
RSS 1.0p enables simpler code.
Schematron for RSS 1.0p
Leigh Dodds announced the
availability of a prototype RSS 1.0p Validator. The
validation is done using the Schematron
toolset. Leigh Dodds is also the author of the Schematron validator
for RSS
0.91. An online
validator is also available although it should be considered
temporary as it will likely move to a more permanent location in the
near future.
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