White Flag! was RDFa and Microformats

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Hello Shane, Ben,  all,

Sorry about one or two of my previous emails It must be the Irish in me 
making me passionate about thing I care about, or something!

Shane McCarron wrote:
>
> That's the funniest thing I have read in ages.  I was crying I laughed 
> so hard.  Thanks for adding a little levity to this painful 
> discussion, Martin.
I am glad someone at least can see the funny side. If someone tries to 
condescend to me I will do it back that is only fair.

some part's of it are serious though ...
>
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>
>> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>> Hello Ben,
>> [...]
>>>> Feedback on this is welcome, of course, but seeing as how this has 
>>>> been
>>>> a consistent principle of RDFa for the last 3-4 years, through Last
>>>> Call, CR, and now PR, I doubt that we would give serious consideration
>>>> to proposals that so substantially weaken RDFa.
>>>>   
>>> How about Its already been done without RDFa...
example of a whole document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <link rel="profile" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#" 
title="vcard"/>
        <title>vCard RDF</title>
    </head>
<body>
<h1>vCard</h1>
<div class="vcard.vc" id="weborganics">
    <p><span class="vc.fn">Martin McEvoy</span></p>
    <p><img class="vc.photo" alt="weborganics" 
src="http://weborganics.co.uk/images/weborg.jpg"/></p>
    <p>Contact: <a class="vc.email" 
href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a></p>
     <p>Web: <a class="vc.url" rel="me" 
href="http://weborganics.co.uk/">WebOrganics</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

The above is an example of how to reference a namespace document safely 
in xhtml by using Explicit Name Based Referencing and Scope.

I had an xslt going on this sometime back in november last year, it was 
very efficient at generating triples but alas it was just a concept 
(just to see if I could), the difference between the above and rdfa, as 
far as I can see, is the above doesn't require anything new, and uses 
concepts that publishers and authors can easily become familiar with?
there are probably a few inconsistencies with the above approach  but 
what the hell, even my grandmother could learn it. ;-) 

Best Wishes

Martin McEvoy