- From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:02:05 +0200
- To: hsivonen@iki.fi, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:48:43 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > But are the advantages more valuable than the cost of the human > effort to put the metadata there? Are the advantages reaped by the > same parties who bear the cost? What incentives do authors have to > meticulously mark up their documents? > I am not sure I understand. Are you asking for a general answer for all markup situations? Of course there is an advantage in all cases where the author want to use metadata markup. You do it for a purpose. If we take a step back from the search engine discussion there are many uses for proper metadata and resource identification in an XHTML 2 document. In previous versions of (X)HTML it wasn't possible (although there was a need for it which the evolution of microformats proves). XHTML 2 will make it easier to make content a part of the semantic web.
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