- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:02:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-grddl-comments@w3.org
Hello, In the development of HTML5 we have made a simplification to the language that should help GRDDL usage be somewhat simpler: We have made the profile="" attribute on <head> unnecessary to declare new metadata keywords. This means that GRDDL can now be simplified to not require an explicit declaration of profile="http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view" before making the rel="transformation" keyword meaningful for GRDDL. It also means that GRDDL can be simplified to not require that transformations look for a profile="" before making the class names supported. For example, an hCard document now no longer needs a profile="" attribute declared, instead the class="vcard" keyword always has meaning. Thus, a GRDDL transformation for hCard no longer needs to be predicated on the profile="" attribute containing the right incantation. This is only relevant for HTML5 documents, and HTML5 won't be a REC for many years yet, so there is no rush here. This change doesn't affect HTML4 documents. (Although, I would recommend making the change for HTML4 document as well, since many authors already omit the profile="" attribute anyway.) Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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