RE: ACTION: Mark to send Ben his latest XML version of the Primer

Ben,

> It turns out that your changes were made on top of an older 
> version of the primer, which didn't have a series of bug 
> fixes.

Sorry about that--I should have realised that I started working on it just
before you incorporated your fixes.


> I took your section 2 and added it into the version 
> that reviewers saw (the one with the bug fixes), and slightly 
> reorganized the section that comes after yours so that the 
> outline of the document no longer special- cases "Shutr", 
> putting your example on equal footing.

Great.

One reason that I think the 'simple' example is an important addition is
that it makes the distinction between simple metadata added by an HTML
author (such as in a personal blog) and metadata that is added by a server,
and which is probably stored elsewhere (the Shutr example). Both are very
important, and I'm pleased that we are showing how *both* are possible with
RDF/A. After all, the target for the primer is both authors who want to add
a few tags to their documents, and systems builders who want to provide
metadata on their pages in a generic way.

(I don't know if that makes for a suitable section breakdown? I.e., rather
than 'A Simple Scenario' and 'A Second Scenario', we might have something
about author-created and system-created metadata? I've no strong feelings on
that though, since as more examples are added other distinctions may come
along.)


> Let me know what you think, and then I'll send it to the WG:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2006-01-24-rdfa-primer
> 
> Compare with the last version:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2006-01-15-rdfa-primer

Perfect...although could you add my name to the authors list, please?

;)

Thanks again.

Regards,

Mark


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Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:15:07 UTC