Dan, not pushing aside your question (for which I do not have a clear answer at the moment, I must admit), can you explain how this issue influences the original ISSUE-29? Ivan Dan Brickley wrote: > > Ben Adida wrote: >> >> Issue #29: >> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/29 >> >> What should the MIME type of an RDFa document be? Proposal: whatever the >> MIME type of the host document is. In the case of XHTML1.1+RDFa, >> application/xhtml+xml. If/when RDFa becomes a valid extension for other >> versions of HTML, then it will take on whatever MIME type they accept. >> >> Thoughts? Questions? Please answer, no matter what you think :) > > +cc TimBL and DanC here, picking up from an IRC discussion a few days > ago. I was asking just this. Well actually I was asking about meaning of > refs like http://example.com/danbri#me if /danbri is an RDFa HTML > document. There is a tradition in the HTML world of #blah referencing a > document section, and in the RDF world (with a lot of push from Tim) for > #blah to be something that can name real-world (non-informational) > resources. The general understanding is that mimetypes are the thing > that establishes the interpretation of #. And so the answer to this > question will shape whether people can address into the non-info world > by pointing to #blahblah within an RDFa doc. > > For very concrete example, imagine this as RDFa in a <head> section: > > <link rel="foaf:primaryTopic" href="#thething-itself" /> > > And then later in the page contents: > > <div about="#thething-itself"> > <p property="xyz:abc"> > > ...on the assumption that the xyz:abc property was supposed to be about > the realworld main topic of the page (maybe a person, a movie, a museum > artifact, etc). > > On my understanding there are some interactions between this style of > RDFa and the existing conventions for text/html and > application/xhtml+xml. Do we lose the RDF/XML idiom of using #blah to > refer to the external world, then? Is this a big loss? > > cheers, > > Dan > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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