Re: RDFa and Microformats

Hi Martin,

>> So really there is no need for the BBC to adopt all out RDFa, just mark-up
>> the useful  bits in RDFa,  I think its interesting that Fabiens XSLT
>> resolves prefix-less values to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab# , this is
>> good I think because at least it tries to add triples to the graph., but it
>> could be resolved further by changing  the XSLT style sheet at
>> http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/glean-hcal.xsl, to look for @property and
>> @content, when determining the values of dtend and dtstart. I can do this
>> Quite happily.
>
> Done! see:
>
> http://transformr.co.uk/xsl/glean-hcal.xsl
> http://weborganics.co.uk/demo/hcal.xhtml
> RDF output
> http://transformr.co.uk/hcalendar-rdf/http://weborganics.co.uk/demo/hcal.xhtml

I think this is a really bad idea.

It's well known that Microformats caused problems for authors by
co-opting the @abbr and @title attributes; why do you want to recreate
the same problems by 'squatting' the new RDFa attributes for
Microformats-style hacks?

If you want to use @property and @content then by all means do so, but
use them as defined in RDFa. In your example that would mean adding
@typeof.

Otherwise, what you are effectively proposing to do amounts to
accepting that Microformats has run up against limitations, but then
imagining that it is ok to then pick and choose parts of a more
generic solution to try to get around the problems.

It's a little ironic, given that we specifically went out of our way
to ensure that RDFa didn't conflict with Microformats.

Regards,

Mark

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Received on Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:04:39 UTC