Re: Interesting experience: my foaf in RDFa

On 8/31/07, Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:02:34 +0100, Simone Onofri
> <simone.onofri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> However, one thing _really_ bugs me: Our nice (X)HTML+RDFa documents are
> ignored by 'Semantic Web search engines' as ptsw [2] or sindice [3].
> People, move on!
>
> Also Semantic Radar [1] may be involved in it and the most simple way
> is to use DTD itself to identify an RDFa.
>
> Actually, a @profile would be the most simple way to indentify RDFa ;). I
> don't think there is any cross-browser javascript, or xslt, way to check
> for a DTD.
>
> Also, when  RDFa is finished, will there not be several DTDs (for each
> supported version of HTML/XHTML)? Whereas there only needs to be one
> profile.
>
> (profiles are also useful while the syntax is still being finalised, as
> documents can link to the transformation that matches the syntax they
> used.)
>
> Admittedly, it is easier to check for a specific DTD (or @profile), than
> for arbitrary @profile uris, and following them to see if they are
> GRDDLable, but if a tool such as semantic radar or ptsw does so, it would
> be able to find more RDF (such as eRDF and GRDDL-enabled microformats).
>
> Anyway, sorry, I'll stop harping on about it now.


Yes You're right, profile is great, so also with GRDDL there are
questions to get @profile in new versions on (X)HTML... but this is
another story.

>
> Keith
>

Cheers,
Simone