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

[Richard C. <ri...@cy...>]

Markus, AJ,

On 28 Nov 2006, at 12:54, Markus Kr=F6tzsch wrote:
>> 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. =20=

> See e.g.
> http://ontoworld.org/RDF/categories.xml
>
> But FF interprets RDF as broken HTML (I think), i.e. the tags are =20
> stripped and
> the page only consists of text between the tags.

Ah, interesting, I didn't know. Thanks for pointing this out, and =20
apologies to AJ for my wrong claims.

> To change this, you could
> deliver your .rdf files as application/xml (and not as application/=20
> rdf+xml),
> or (if they are static files), rename them into .xml or reconfigure =20=

> your
> webserver to use the other mime.

Well, yes, but that's no real solution either because it sends an =20
inexact MIME type that might cause RDF clients to not recognize the =20
RDF document.

Richard


> 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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