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Re: hTurtle: A GRDDL-Compatible Microformat for Turtle-in-HTML

From: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:13:26 -0800
Message-ID: <472E0BC6.6030804@dajobe.org>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@miscoranda.com>, semantic-web@w3.org 

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>> - The hTurtle Microformat
> 
> Absolutely, positively the worst microformat ever proposed!

Although I'm not one to judge microformats, it probably isn't
a microformat as far as I understand them.

My main comment as Turtle author is that I really don't like this.
Stuffing data inside comments is not preserving semantics, as the
semantics of comments are that they are ignored.  We learnt this
lesson with RDF/XML jammed into comments for Creative Commons
licensing.

There are better solutions now such as use <link>,
<head profile> and/or GRDDL transforms.

If you wanted to continue this idea, I'd suggest calling it
embedded turtle, even that is with little enthusiasm from me.

Dave
Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:13:44 GMT

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