Re: [Fwd: Why not date=? (was Re: ODF and semantic web)]

On 15 Oct 2007, at 12:25, Ivan Herman wrote:

> Bijan did not copy this to the RDFa task force, though the content of
> the mail is really relevant for this group, because he proposes an  
> extra
> RDFa syntax. (Bijan, I hope that is all right with you.)

It's fine.

> My initial reaction on what he proposes: it does make sense. If we
> define some sort of a general 'pre-processor' or hGRDDL formalism,  
> that
> could be a typical case for it. I would not have a problem saying  
> that a
> preprocessor goes through the DOM tree before processing and would
> change each occurrence of:
>
> <.... content-date="2007-12-12" ...>
>
> into
>
> <.... content="2007-12-12" datatype="xsd:date" ...>
>
> by delegating that into the preprocessor the syntax document's formal
> processing steps might stay unchanged.

That sounds reasonable.

> Having said that: at the f2f meeting last week we, sort of, decided to
> get into a 'feature freeze' mode as soon as possible to get the syntax
> document out and on the Rec track. This may be one of those features
> that might be relegated into a future version...

That's understandable. I'll just add that personally I'll have  
difficulty recommending RDFa (at least with datatypes) with the  
existing syntax. For some applications that might be fine as I could  
post processes plain literals by a combination of sniffing the  
content and knowing something about the property.

Cheers,
Bijan.