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I am still looking for big real-life examples, applications, whatever, using RDF.

Amazes me that RSS started as RDF but now looks completely different. I would like to see a description of the history of RSS, why things happened as they did.

I read that somebody predicted a 100 years ago that there would be music for the masses, with people listening using one earphone each. Although it was a nice prediction, neither wireless nor loudspeakers occured to him. So much for us trying to predict things. (from a thread on comp.lang.forth).

Dum me, I just found the http://www.advogato.org/diary/ link that everybody uses to add diary entries. Oh well, hacking my own xmlrpc thingie was fun.

Ok, I am curious.

This is a test. What happens if I already did send a diary entry today via Send?

The next days I will be working on a paper about component models in an extended subset of UML. After that we have planned a tool for conversion of XMI to PVS, and I have to write a report with the plan. That will keep me busy for a while!

How do you add entries to your Advogato diary?

I like to be able to write diary entries with my favorite text editor (gvim) and store them in a file. With the Python script below in my CGI directory, called todiary.py, I can now send an Advogato diary entry from anywhere, via my Send Entry page.

You can use that Send Entry page too, I do not try to steal passwords :-) But of course you can also just copy the HTML there and the Python CGI program below to your own site.

Once I have a diary entry I can edit it with the "Edit" button Advogato supplies. But I did not find a way to add a new diary entry. Is it even there?

import cgi
import sys 
sys.stderr = sys.stdout    # errors to browser
print "Content-type: text/plain"
print
# Get cgi parameters, Python Cookbook recipe 11.3.
fieldStorage = cgi.FieldStorage()
params = {}
for key in fieldStorage.keys():
    params[key] = fieldStorage[key].value
diaryEntryString = params['yourfile']
name = params['name']
pw = params['pw']
import xmlrpclib
server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://www.advogato.org/XMLRPC")
cookie = server.authenticate(name, pw)
diary = server.diary
diary.set(cookie, -1, diaryEntryString)
print 'Sending this to you Advogato Diary:'
print '-----------------------------------'
print diaryEntryString
print 'number of diary entries is now: %s' % diary.len(name)

 
 

I made an overview of what we can do with the HTML tags: The following HTML is accepted... a (hyperlink works normally with href attribute?)
i italic
b bold
tt true type

ol ordered list?
1. li list item?

ul unordered list?
• li list item?

 
     pre  same as tt?
 

To my surprise I found this Advogate XMLRPC interface for diaries on the advogato site. What a fun idea!