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Because the "semantic web" was an interesting idea. And: Because it exists/existed and thus people relied upon it. With the amount of sites on the web, even a
by johannes1234321 1y ago
Because the "semantic web" was an interesting idea.
And: Because it exists/existed and thus people relied upon it.
With the amount of sites on the web, even a small number relying on features, each having just a bunch of users, it becomes a big number of impacted.
- bawolff 1y agoI dont see how xslt is connected to semantic web
- johannes1234321 1y agoThe GP asked "Why is RSS so special here?" And XSLT in that context is interesting as one can ship the RSS file, the web browser renders it with XSLT to human readable and a smart browser can do smart things with it. All from the same file.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 1y ago"Semantic" means making all distinctions you care about and not making any distinctions you do not care about. This means a custom notation for nearly every case. XML is such a tool. And XSLT is a key component to make all these notations compatible with each other.
- bawolff 11mo agoThat is not what "semantic web" means. Semantic web was a series of standards (rdf and friends) made by w3c from the early 2000s that didnt really catch on.
- pwdisswordfishs 11mo agoJSON-LD, ActivityPub, and scholarly metadata are all examples of Semantic Web technology that have caught on.
- hk__2 1y agoOk but maintaining a web browser that supports a ton of small features that nobody-except-me-and-my-cousin are using has a huge cost; you don’t support obscure features just because someone somewhere is relying on it (relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/).