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Drupal and the Semantic Web

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From DrupalCon DC, "The Practical Semantic Web and Why You Should Care".  RDFa, the WC3 standard for presenting semantic data within XML for search engines to have some semantic capabilities.  The presentation talks about what the semantic web is, what RDFa is, and what is being introduced into Drupal.  View the video here

Using non-required parameters with java tags

So, you've decided to take the plunge, and make custom java tags.  Now, you've got two of the same tags, with some non-required fields, and values set in one are showing up in the next.  What's going on?  Basically, Java's a bit confused.  I won't go into all the details here; if you're really currious, you can go googling.  How do you fix it though?  Easy, actually.  Just implement the TryCatchFinally, and override the doFinally() method to clear out y

Preventing page breaks in text using HTMLDOC

The standard behavior of HTMLDOC with a block of text, as with any browser, is to break the text across pages if the text won't fit on the page.  This can be prevented however, by simply inserting a comment before the element containing the text.  An example is as follows:

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