Re: HTML in RDF

Yes, that's what I was getting at. Sorry for turning the topic on it's head.
:-) It came up whilst designing an ontology for a "portal" and forum and I'd
like to have a structured view of HTML content rather than an opaque string.

Regards

Bent

2007/10/25, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsplayer.com>:
>
> Karl/Shane,
>
> This is all true. :) But I think the question was about whether HTML
> could be serialised in its entirety to RDF. This would allow documents
> to be analysed at a completely different level to simply processing
> the mark-up, and is something--like Bent--I'm very interested in for
> the future. RDFa provides a good basis for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> On 25/10/2007, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Shane McCarron (25 oct. 2007 - 10:18) :
> > > 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.
> >
> > For what is worth, the exact syntax of profile file has never really
> > been defined. There has been an attempt by Tantek Çelick with [XMDP]
> > [1], but with no particular instruction for machine retrieval.
> > There has been [work from Danny Ayers][2] and Dan Connolly to be able
> > to process it with GRDDL. For example, [XFN on the GRDDL][3]
> > The last information I have read about it was [GRDDL progress][4]
> >
> >
> > [1]: http://gmpg.org/xmdp/
> > [2]: http://dannyayers.com/2005/08/01/microformats-on-the-grddl/
> > [3]: http://www.w3.org/2003/g/td/xfn-workalike
> > [4]: http://dannyayers.com/2007/06/25/grddl-progress
> >
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