I'm new to this group so please be gentle... I have two quick questions, the first being the most important.
QUESTION 1: When I look at the contents of the "history.dat" file created by Netscape 6.1, it appears to be in RDF format which I am guessing is a Mozilla flavour of XML. What interests me is Netscape's "LastVisitDate" and "FirstVisitDate" values stored for visited websites. It seems that this RDF language translates the dates/times into a 16-digit number. Here is an example of a "fresh" history.dat file with only 1 visited link. The date and time should correspond to "23-Oct-2001 06:40 AM" OR "23-Oct-2001 02:40 AM" depending on which time zone created the entry. Here is my example. I have numbered each line for easy reference: 1 -- // <!-- <mdb:mork:z v="1.4"/> --> 2 -- < <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1) 3 -- (80=ns:history:db:row:scope:history:all) 4 -- (81=ns:history:db:table:kind:history)(82=URL)(83=Referrer) 5 -- (84=LastVisitDate)(85=FirstVisitDate)(86=VisitCount)(87=Name) 6 -- (88=Hostname)> 7 -- 8 -- <(13B=http://www.netscape.com/)(13C=1003833608578000)(13D=www.netscape.com) 9 -- (13E=N$00e$00w$00 $00P$00a$00g$00e$00 $001$00)> 0 -- {1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9)} A -- [7(^82^13B)(^84^13C)(^85^13C)(^88^13D)(^87^13E)]} As you can see on line 5, the column values 84 and 85 are assigned to "LastVisitDate" and "FirstVisitDate" respectively. Then on line 8, there is an entry for the date/time that was recorded for the visit (13C). This 13C value corresponds to line A. Based on the ^84^13C and ^85^13C notations, I draw the conclusion that these are both refering to 13C which is the "date/time". Now, can someone please tell me what "1003833608578000" is suppose to represent? I have chequed everything including: www.w3.org, www.mozilla.org and even www.iso.ch with no answers. QUESTION 2: What is the word "Mork" all about? I've looked everywhere for a definition or some kind of support documentation. Everyone uses this word or terminology freely but no one even mentions what it is? I'm guessing that it's some sort of database specification for use in XML and RDF documents. Anyone? Hope that someone out there has that answer for question #1 because I have work that relates specifically to interpreting this data. Thanks in advance! John
