Re: RDFa Question, Clarification

Martin McEvoy wrote:

> I have over the last year been studying something I have started  
> calling
> Metaformats - Languages that describe other languages, RDFa is a
> Metaformat used to primarily describe RDF vocabularies in html.

Martin, although RDFa *can* be used to describe RDF vocabularies,  
that's not its primary purpose. Its primary purpose is, basically, to  
do what microformats do - to add semantics to human-readable HTML.

Yes, that includes:

> <div id="location" typeof="geo" about="#location">
>         <span property="latitude" content="53.7552">N 53.7552</span>,
>          <span property="longitude" content="-2.3675">W -2.3675</span>
> </div>

<div xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
typeof="geo:Point" id="location" about="#location">
   <span property="geo:lat"  content="53.7552">N 53.7552</span>
   <span property="geo:long" content="-2.3675">W -2.3675</span>
</div>

> <div id="weborganics" typeof="vcard" about="#weborganics">
>        <span property="fn">Martin McEvoy</span>
>        <span rel="photo">
>                <img src="http://weborganics.co.uk/site/photo/1/me.jpg"
> alt="weborganics"/>
>        </span>
>             Contact: <a rel="email"
> href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a>
>             Web: <a rel="url"
> href="http://weborganics.co.uk/">WebOrganics</a>
> </div>

<div about="#weborganics" id="weborganics" typeof="v:Vcard"
xmlns:v="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#">
   <span property="v:fn">Martin McEvoy</span>
   <img src="http://weborganics.co.uk/site/photo/1/me.jpg"
   alt="weborganics" rel="v:photo" />
   Contact: <a rel="v:email"
   href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a>
   Web: <a rel="v:url"
   href="http://weborganics.co.uk">WebOrganics</a>
</div>

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Received on Tuesday, 19 August 2008 20:15:06 UTC