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Re: [foaf-dev] Parsing RDF from namespace documents - anyone reading RDF from inside XHTML? (foaf ns)

From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:53:11 +0100
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Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Libby Miller <libby@nicecupoftea.org>, foaf-dev Friend of a <foaf-dev@lists.foaf-project.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
On 6 Jun 2009, at 01:07, Danny Ayers wrote:

> I would very much like to see the continuation of there being a HTML
> version and an RDF/XML version of the spec available through conneg.
> Standards and all that. What troubles me a little is that if the HTML
> version uses RDFa, it's going to be hard to keep versions in sync, all
> complete.


Surely with there being two versions already (HTML and RDF/XML),  
there is still opportunity for them to become out of sync. I don't  
see how adding RDFa to the HTML version makes that any worse.

The syncing problem is greatly reduced by using a script to generate  
one version from the other (whichever way around you choose to do  
it), which is indeed what is done for the FOAF spec.

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Toby A Inkster
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