Re: RDFa and Microformats

Toby A Inkster wrote:

> RDFa is "just" a representation of RDF. And microformats can already be 
> parsed as RDF - that's the point of GRDDL. Despite the fact that XSLT is 
> a horrible, horrible abomination, I think that GRDDL, not RDFa, is 
> probably the best hope for bringing microformats into the "upper case 
> Semantic Web".
> 
> I believe Microformats and RDFa can happily co-exist. They both have 
> different syntaxes, but once you've converted them both to the abstract 
> RDF model, you can use pretty simple rules to combine the data from 
> each. The aim to strive towards should be: different syntaxes, separate 
> parsing models, but at the end one data model.

That's exactly my view too.

I guess in practice we'll also need an "HTML Tidy" step to get things 
into a GRDDL-ready markup.

cheers,

Dan


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