Re: GRDDL and HTML5

> It also means that GRDDL can be simplified to not require that
>> transformations look for a profile="" before making the class names
>> supported. For example, an hCard document now no longer needs a profile="" h
>> attribute declared, instead the class="vcard" keyword always has meaning.
>> Thus, a GRDDL transformation for hCard no longer needs to be predicated on
>> the profile="" attribute containing the right incantation.
>>
>
Real world microformat usage - barely anyone bothers with the profile
attribute. I've gotten used to explicitly adding profiles/transformations to
seek out hcard/hcal/etc data.

That being said, it would kind of scare me to have to do a layer of doctype
checking (or however else is recommended to tell the difference between html
4, 5, xhtml, etc) to determine if I should just assume certain profiles are
implied.

I'd feel a lot more comfortable keeping it as something explicit which I
instruct the GRDDL client to do.

Received on Monday, 4 August 2008 00:03:07 UTC