Re: RDF being phased out?

rvj wrote:
>  final question (s)
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> a) does that mean that all RDF support say in XULRunner will be removed or 
> will it be frozen?
> b) if frozen will the bugs that remain be avoidable  if well documented ?

Phased out means killed, and stuffed with a gym sock.

Axel

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> "rvj" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
>> In  milarity terms I guess RDF might be called "forlorn hope" however I 
>> had still hoped that Mozilla's RDF would offer  an alternative approach to 
>> the redundancy of SQL field duplication
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>> In fact my main concern over the last couple of years has been  whether 
>> RDF, or the  template generator would be able cope with normal CSS styling 
>> (I still dont know how style the currently selected item in a listbox with 
>> selected item icon).
>> Ive belated discovered how to do this but its not exactly been apparent 
>> through Mozilla documentation.
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>> Am I correct in thinking  that the equivalent of RDF flush() is now 
>> officially available in Mozilla for XML  files
>> (presumably SAVE) ?
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>> "Axel Hecht" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> rvj wrote:
>>>> just when I thought things were pretty stable....
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>>>> any reasons why RDF to be phased out .... and what will replace it?
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>>> There are design bugs in our impl, and the impl never caught up with any 
>>> RDF standard, so we have a few bugs that are incredibly hard to fix, and 
>>> a plethora of not-backwards compatible changes to get the RDF testsuites 
>>> to pass.
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>>> The first bucket wasn't tackled before we phased RDF out, the latter is 
>>> hard to do without.
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>>> As for replacements, people like sql and json.
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>>> Axel
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>>>> "Axel Hecht" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Fernandez, Sylvester J wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>>> I hear that use of RDF will be phased out in the future. Where can I
>>>>>> find out more about this development?
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>>>>> It depends. There are various different usages for RDF. Templates would 
>>>>> be one, the docs for the new stuff for that are on MDC. Then the stuff 
>>>>> that mailnews does wrt to RDF in Addressbook and friends, the rip out 
>>>>> of that is part of the tb 3 design plan.
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>>>>> Basically, RDF is phased out, but still used all over, so we're 
>>>>> gradually moving over to not using it. That isn't really an overall 
>>>>> plan, but more of an agenda, that's happening at the pace of the 
>>>>> particular code pieces.
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>>>>> Axel
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