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I'd planned to play with Erlang on the train to/from Lugano, but kind-of got distracted from the main thread. I'm eager to code with it, but I'm only a 1/10 of the way through the book, nowhere near the really interesting bits yet.

Thing is, the kind of code I want to play with is (Semantic) Web stuff, and it seems not all the core prerequisites are available. There's a HTTP server ( yaws), but I forgot to download a copy. I assume there'll be a HTTP client somewhere. I think I've seen some XML kit - probably minimal, but with the recent upsurge in interest in the language that's bound to get better. I couldn't find anything for RDF (checking Dave, Chris, Mike's lists, also Sergey's and Joshua's).

So on the train I made a start at a Turtle parser with yecc. I got maybe half-way through the productions, able to get a nested tuple structure out. Should be just about enough to get started, with a bit of tweaking ( undocumented -> source.). Erlang's got a digraph module in the distro so I was thinking of using that as a base for RDF models. When I next have a minute ( Friday afternoon?), I'll try and rough that out, then get back to the book.