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I'd prefer the XML namespace-y ":" instead of ">" - it's less obtrusive... e.g. $foaf:knows instead of $foaf>knows.
John Breslin
Scott, John: Thanks for your comments, guys. Keep 'em coming!
The example $in>walmart$ was actually a typo, and according to the proposal is an invalid tuple. I corrected it in my local copy but not here on the site. I've changed it now, it should be:
$in walmart$
As for the namespace delimiter, we also would've liked to use a colon. However, we found that the Twitter search engine doesn't allow us to search on tuple names that include a colon--it truncates the input at the colon and only searches for the namespace. The greater-than sign was the only character we could find that seemed to allow us to search for tuples that included a namespace and name. Of course, if we could persuade Twitter to change their search, then we could use the better character.
We have a web service for parsing Twitter Data in zembly, check it out:
http://zembly.com/things/1de07d14997649b692f94127fbe2f35c
We will share some other code as we develop it, but if you develop something--especially PHP--please let us know so we can post a link.
Finally, thanks for the note on the forum. I agree it's not perfect, but will see what I can do.
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I was looking through the examples, and the one thing that is still bugging me is the "a single, value-trailing delimiter" ... it just doesn't seem intuitive to me. When people are using search engines, they are told that to delimit multi-word values with quotes ... which seems like it could work in this case also.
In your examples, you have one example: Saw a $aero>man MIG $in>walmart$ would you believe it?
With this example I'm left looking at $in>walmart$ and wondering what this really is/means? Is this then a name (with namespace) with no value?
Overall, I really like the direction that you are going with this ... I have been developing multiple twitter applications that require some extended syntax ... and I was hoping to see more ad hoc standards emerge. This is by far the best I have seen so far! I'm going to write some php code to work with this ... you haven't published any of your code yet?
P.S.This forum is cool, but fails to indicate if you are going to protect my e-mail address if I put it in this form ... and if it will be publically exposed. I would hope that it would be protected, and used to notify my of comments on this thread. :-)