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title: "RDFifying my old RSS template..."
date: 2002-12-11T17:11:01-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/12/11/ooocdi/
author: Les Orchard
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# RDFifying my old RSS template...

<p>Still working on my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RdfNotes">RdfNotes</a> and learning <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RDF">RDF</a>.  I hadn't realized it, but <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/newslog.xml">my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> feed</a> was still being produced from a vaguely constructed v0.91 template, so I decided to update it to <a href="http://www.syndic8.com/~wkearney/blogs/syndic8/templates/leandro-mt-fix.html">a v1.0 template</a> for <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MovableType">MovableType</a> I found <a href="http://www.syndic8.com/~wkearney/blogs/syndic8/archives/000038.html">via Bill Kearney</a>.  I also got a little brave with the <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RDF">RDF</a> and decided to start tweaking, stealing a few extra metadata elements from <a href="http://www.perceive.net/xml/articles.xml">Eric Vitiello Jr.'s <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> feed</a> such as a pointer to <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/downloads/lmo-foaf.rdf">my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/FOAF">FOAF</a> file</a>.</p>
<p>If I'm lucky, everything validates and I can start poking at my own metadata with <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RDF">RDF</a> tools.</p>
<p><b>Update</b>: Yay, according to the <a href="http://feeds.archive.org/validator/">RSS Validator</a>, my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> template passes: <a href="http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http://www.decafbad.com/newslog.xml"><img src="http://www.decafbad.com/images/valid-rss.png" alt="[Valid]" title="Validate my feed" width="88" height="31" /></a></p>
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