Tag: xml
Free Software
October 4th, 2004, No Comments
I’ve also been catching up on a couple of free software projects the last couple of weeks. I’ve posted a new version of my fork of the mod_virgule code that includes the latest patches to the official version. It also includes several new features from my ToDo list including a configurable sitemap and article index [...]
mod_virgule and UTF-8 weirdness
October 31st, 2003, No Comments
I’m seeing more and more UTF-8 related issues pop up in code lately for some reason. Much of the debugging work I’ve done with the ODP XML dumps has been tracking down illegal XML characters and invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. Now I’ve run across a related bug in mod_virgule. The trust metrics on robots.net stopped [...]
XTM, RDF, DAML, OIL, and other uses of XML
December 28th, 2002, No Comments
My recent discussions with the ODP guys about open-sourcing the ODP backend software have led me to read up on RDF, which is the format used by ODP for exporting the ontological information and content of the directory. One thing I immediately ran into was XTM, the ISO standard for creating XML Topic Maps. These [...]



