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Re: RDFa for Firefox

From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:56:29 -0700
Message-ID: <470DBB0D.3040805@adida.net>
To: David Peterson <david@squishyfish.com>
CC: 'Karl Dubost' <karl@w3.org>, 'Shane McCarron' <shane@aptest.com>, 'Ivan Herman' <ivan@w3.org>, 'Sergio Fernández' <sergio@wikier.org>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org


David,

Of course we'd love to eventually make RDFa validate in HTML. That said,
we're taking this one step at a time: our group was chartered only for
XHTML1.1+RDFa.

The RDFa syntax is defined in a DOM-based way, which makes it extremely
simple to port to non-XML HTML. In addition, just about every existing
RDFa tool you see will work quite well on HTML4 documents.

I'm actually not sure where the extra DTDs you found came from, but I'm
perfectly happy they were built :) The point is that we'd love to see
this happen, but it's going to take some more lobbying and discussions
with the HTML5 folks.

-Ben

David Peterson wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> You mentioned that the spec only exists for XHTML1.1 now, but this page [1]
> lists a spec for HTML 4.01 [2]. And when I look up the DTD sure enough there
> is some RDFa stuff in it. Are there any examples of this in use? I ask
> because I know of several developers who do not use XHTML and that was there
> main deterrent to RDFa. So if it worked and validated they would be likely
> to use it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Peterson
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RDFaInHTML
> 
> [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/html401-rdfa-1.dtd
> 
>  
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