Re: [Rdfapi-php-interest] view RDF file in Firefox

[Markus <ma...@ai...>]

On Monday 27 November 2006 11:02, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 27 Nov 2006, at 09:09, AJ Chen wrote:
> > When firefox opens a rdf file generated by rdfapi, it automatically
> > parses it as xml file. The result is unreadable.
>
> This is what Firefox does with all XML files.

That is not quite true. In fact, Firefox nicely displays XML files. See e.g=
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http://ontoworld.org/RDF/categories.xml

But FF interprets RDF as broken HTML (I think), i.e. the tags are stripped =
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the page only consists of text between the tags. To change this, you could=
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deliver your .rdf files as application/xml (and not as application/rdf+xml)=
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or (if they are static files), rename them into .xml or reconfigure your=20
webserver to use the other mime.

And, of course, someone should file a Firefox bug report.

Cheers,

Markus

>
> > So, I want Firefox to open rdf file as is, showing content within
> > xml structure. Any suggestion how to do that?
>
> Select "View Source" from the menu.
>
> > Maybe something can be added to the  top of rdf file, which will
> > prevent it from parsing by xml parser.
>
> You could do that, but then it wouldn't be an RDF file any more, and
> therefore most RDF tools would not recognize it.
>
> (As a better solution, you could use an XML processing instruction to
> associate a CSS or XSLT stylesheet with the RDF document, see [1].)
>
> RDF files are not meant to be displayed to a human. It doesn't really
> matter if it's parsed as XML, or if the raw XML is displayed, Non-
> geeks will not be able to understand either of those. Look at how
> links to RSS and Atom feeds are usually handled, they are hidden away
> behind [RSS] buttons or <link> elements in the HTML head, human
> readers will usually not see it, and RSS clients know where to look
> for it. I think the same approach should be used for RDF.
>
> Yours,
> Richard
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/
>
> > Or configure firefox not to parse rdf file. But I can't find a way
> > to add rdf file type to firefox download manager.
> > Thanks,
> > --
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