RE: RDDL.NET 2001-01-14

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Jason Diamond wrote:
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I've implemented a simple RDDL "parser" for use on Microsoft's .NET
> platform. The source archive, the API documentation, and a test web
> application that can extract the resources out of any online RDDL
> directory
> are available here:
>
> http://injektilo.org/rddl/
>
> The API isn't quite usable enough for the type of processing that we're
> looking for yet but it's a start. I'd appreciate any and all comments that
> you might have.

This is terrific. I will reference this in the spec as a resource. In order
to better support different language bindings and types of implementations
e.g. push, pull, DOM I've explicitly added a RDDL 'infoset' to the spec
(right up front where an implementor wants to see it :-))

I've also added an XSLT resource
>
> Hopefully, we can get some more RDDL directories online so that we can see
> what types of resources people want to reference in them and get some sort
> of idea on how they'd expect applications to dereference those
> resources. If
> you do put a directory online, I'd appreciate it if you could
> send me a note
> so that I could start a list of publicly available directories that we can
> test the parser with.
>

Yes, I think the spec is starting to stabilize, so there ought not be too
much fear about implementing something that will need to be totally
reworked. At this point (IMHO) we need some real world implementation
experiece prior to making any substantial changes in the spec -- of course
if there are any problems anyone has feel free to chime in -- I *think*
we've taken care of most issues people have had until now.

The next big job will be to define a list of resource link 'purposes' or
arcroles.

Nice work.

-Jonathan