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Discovered XFN

Tosh Meston — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:21:00 GMT

I find XFN (XHTML Friends Network) via Tantek. What it is...

XFN outlines the relationships between individuals by defining a small set of values that describe personal relationships. In HTML and XHTML documents, these are given as values for the rel attribute on a hyperlink. XFN allows authors to indicate which of the weblogs they read belong to friends, whom they've physically met, and other personal relationships. Using XFN values, which can be listed in any order, people can humanize their blogrolls and links pages, both of which have become a common feature of weblogs.

SportsML

Tosh Meston — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:56:00 GMT

I am kind of interested in applications of XML. To be sure, it was an interest in RSS which led me to write my random thoughts about things on this blog. Recently, I blogged an update about the MathML spec. I have heard of projects such as ChemML (CML) to markup molecular structure and reaction formulas, and a similar effort is in progress to markup music. Last night, I came across another effort by way of the cool Google ads on my pickup basketball site InfiniteHoops.com (shameless plug, I know and don't care) -- SportsML, which aims to provide a method to markup stats and scores from all sporting events. A SportsML feed of up to the minute pro sports stats is something which naturally would be a good fit for my particular situation and all the would-be ESPNs around the web. If those SportsML guys are reading this, no doubt the next step is a SOAP based SportsAPI for stat keeping. Perhaps in my next life I will have time to work on this.

MathML Working Group Notes Published

Tosh Meston — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:25:00 GMT

From the W3C Weekly News - 16 November 2003 e-mailing:

MathML Working Group Notes Published

The Math Working Group has released "Units in MathML," "Structured
Types in MathML 2.0" and "Bound Variables in MathML" as Working Group
Notes. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation
and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. Visit the
Math home page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-units-20031110/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-types-20031110/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-bvar-20031110/
http://www.w3.org/Math/