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Re: HTML in RDF

From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:18:37 -0500
Message-ID: <471FEEED.7040002@aptest.com>
To: Bent Rasmussen <incredibleshrinkingsphere@gmail.com>
CC: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org

We have from time to time discussed how RDFa can be represented in HTML 
4.  There is not yet any formal specification in this area.  Personally, 
I think it would be relatively easy to manifest the current RDFa in 
XHTML syntax in HTML 4  - I have done a proof of concept DTD. 

The only challenge is defining prefixes for compact URIs.  We need a 
syntactic convention, probably via the meta element, since we cannot use 
the xmlns mechanism to define prefixes in HTML 4.  I hope to do some 
work on this in the coming months.

Bent Rasmussen wrote:
> The topic of the list is RDF in XHTML, but I was wondering whether 
> anyone has tried to transform HTML into RDF. If not, then if there are 
> any ontologies available for representing semi-textual content.
>  
> Regards
> Bent R.
>  

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