Re: Schema.org property cardinality and use of plural (WAS Re: SoftwareApplication proposal for schema.org)

Hello Henry,
I would say space will be the token separator :)  (a bad result) But, in 
this context, the main problem is not how to extract triples but what  
content creators really do.
I am confident that a non-trivial schema processor (extractor) will do 
more than simple DOM parsing.

-Adrian Giurca
On 2/28/2012 7:56 PM, Henry Andrews wrote:
> With the caveat that I'm new here and probably don't know what I'm 
> talking about, this plural/list usage does not look like a good idea, 
> as it requires anyone who wants to make use of the data to understand 
> that it needs to parse and split on the comma.  Which is easy enough 
> in this example but can become very complex in terms of quoting and 
> escaping, at which point people are likely to write things improperly 
> quoted/escaped making the data worthless.  It's much much easier to 
> say that all formatting/parsing should be handled by the actual markup 
> syntax (in this case HTML) and values are treated as-is.
>
> I guess this would make for more verbose HTML markup as you'd need to 
> wrap each OS in a <span itemprop="operatingSystem"></span>, but I 
> think it's much more clean.
>
> thanks,
> -henry
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Adrian Giurca <giurca@tu-cottbus.de>
>     *Subject:* Re: Schema.org property cardinality and use of plural
>     (WAS Re: SoftwareApplication proposal for schema.org)
>
>     When Text is expected I would say that both string and distinct
>     markup should be allowed. Asa such the below may work too:
>     <div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication">
>     <p itemprop="operatingSystems">OSX 10.6, Windows 7</p>
>     ...
>     </div>
>
>     and a potential Schema processor should be advised. Of course,
>     this can solved much better  by introducing cardinalities on
>     Schema.org <http://Schema.org>
>     Introducing cardinalities will not put any pressure on possible
>     existent Schema.org consumers.
>     However, one should be advised that object oriented software
>     design has a long tradition on using plural to introduce
>     collections of things.
>
>     -Adrian  Giurca
>

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