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GoodRelations - The Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce

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GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, price, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications.

[goodrelations] Pitfall when creating GoodRelations data: HTML entity names in XML

Martin Hepp (UniBW) martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Wed Mar 24 14:52:43 CET 2010


Dear all:

When you create GoodRelations data in RDF/XML syntax from existing Web 
applications, there is a potential pitfall:

Your data may contain HTML entity names that are fine for a browser but 
will result in invalid XML,
because not every HTML entity is also a valid XML entity.

Example: The text "£ 100" for 100 GBP may be encoded in HTML as "£ 
100".

However, "£ 100" is not a valid literal value in RDF/XML 
documents, e.g. the following element breaks the XML code:

<rdfs:comment 
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Coverage from 
£1,000 up to a limit of £5,000</rdfs:comment>

Luckily, it's relatively easy to avoid that problem:

Option 1: Use the numeric entity encoding (£) instead of the entity 
name (£). This will work for both HTML and RDF/XML.

Option 2: Use the UTF-8 character "£" directly instead of with HTML 
entity names.

You may have to update data in the source database in both cases.

This will mostly be a problem when augmenting older, HTML 4.x-based 
applications or data sources originating from those.

Thanks to Andreas Radinger for spotting this problem!


Best wishes

Martin Hepp

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Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to   - http://vimeo.com/7583816

Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html

Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey 
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009





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