- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:11:31 -0500
- To: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:10 -0400, Ben Adida wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is a request for feedback on a pending decision of the task force.
>
> All active members of the task force are currently in agreement that the
> CLASS attribute in HTML should be viewed as an rdf:type declaration on
> that element. Of course, we want to do this such that no unexpected
> triples are produced by unsuspecting HTML authors.
[...]
> Please send your feedback in response to this message. There's good
> precedent for using the CLASS attribute in this way (eRDF,
> microformats), and we feel that the result should never yield anything
> unexpected to the HTML author.
Microformats uses the class attribute in several ways; the idiom
you describe is only one of them. Here's an excerpt
from a recent itinerary of mine:
<span class='summary'><a class='url'
href='https://bwi.flightview.com/fvSabreVT/fvCPL.exe?vthost=1W&acid=393&qtype=htm&AL=AA&Find1=Track+Flight'>AMERICAN AIRLINES FLT:393</a></span>
and the GRDDL transformation turns that into...
<c:Vevent>
<c:summary>AMERICAN AIRLINES FLT:393</c:summary>
<c:url
r:resource="https://bwi.flightview.com/fvSabreVT/fvCPL.exe?vthost=1W&acid=393&qtype=htm&AL=AA&Find1=Track+Flight"/>
If I understand this proposal, I would (also?) get triples a la...
_:span1 rdf:type :summary.
_:anchor2 rdf:type :url .
which is very much unexpected.
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