rdfwml(1)

💖 rdfwml 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the rdfwml(1) page — it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and yes it's giving very "niche little tool that absolutely slays at one specific job" energy. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rdfwml — a converter that takes Netscape RDF channel files and turns them into WML decks 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what is this lil guy doing? it's a simple converter for Netscape RDF channel files → small WML decks. and when we say small decks, we mean decks that contain a small card for each item. one item, one card, cute and tidy, periodt 💅

there's also a CGI variant of it, and honestly? it's the lowkey overachiever of the family. it just:

• adds the correct Content-Type header for you (no manual header-ing, we love to see it ✨)
• and works out which file to parse by reading the QUERY_STRING variable 👑

to actually use rdfwml, you literally just call it with an RDF file. that's it. that's the whole vibe. and good news — one from Slashdot is provided, so you can test it immediately without hunting for a file. iconic 🍓

to use rdfwml.cgi, link it like this:

<a href="/path/to/cgi/rdfwml.cgi?slashdot.rdf">News!</a>

that's the link, character for character, don't be out here changing it or the whole thing stops vibing 💀

and for the rdfwml command itself, the usage is:

Usage: ./rdfwml file.rdf

ngl, the whole thing is small — no flags, no options, no wild configuration. just hand it a .rdf and let it cook 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap 🫶 this was Debian GNU/Linux, from way back in July 2005, and it's rdfwml(1) till the very end 💜