Re: "Microformats, Microdata, and RDFa" - attn: Jeff and Peter!

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:03:45PM +0100, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> > -- "Though in principle extensible, the microdata schemas would require a
> > lot of extension..."?  Was the more cryptic: "Though _it_ is in principle
> > extensible _it_ would require..."
> 
> I find the "though in principle extensible" confusing here, since it precedes
> the subject of the sentence (the microdata schemas). 
> 
> So I'd prefer something like:
> 
> Although they are, in principle, extensible, microdata schemes would need to
> be heavily extended in order to express library information since most of the
> required vocabulary is lacking.
> 
> or
> 
> Microdata schemes, while in principle extensible, would require a lot of
> extension for use in expressing library information since most of the
> required vocabulary is lacking.
> 
> or
> 
> Although in principle they are extensible, microdata schemes would need to be
> heavily extended in order to express library information since most of the
> required vocabulary is lacking.

All three are better than (though consistent with) what I proposed, especially
the third.  Will you make the change?

Tom

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