- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:02 -0500
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, "public-grddl-comments@w3.org" <public-grddl-comments@w3.org>
FYI... just posted...
The details of data in documents; GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/240
Submitted by connolly on Fri, 2008-08-22 13:09. :: GRDDL | microformats
| XHTML
GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is
specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes
beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is
intended to standardize the connection between tag soup and XPath. The
tidy use case for GRDDL anticipates that using HTML 5 concrete syntax
rather than XHTML 1.x concrete syntax involves no changes at the XPath
level
But in GRDDL and HTML5, Ian Hickson, editor of HTML 5, advocates
dropping the profile attribute of the HTML head element in favor of
rel="profile" or some such. I dropped by the #microformats channel to
think out loud about this stuff, and Tantek said similarly, "we may
solve this with rel="profile" anyway." The rel-profile topic in the
microformats wiki shows the idea goes pretty far back.
Possibilities I see include:
* GRDDL implementors add support for rel="profile" along with HTML
5 concrete syntax
* GRDDL implementors don't change their code, so people who want
to use GRDDL with HTML 5 features such as <video> stick to
XML-wf-happy HTML 5 syntax and they use the head/@profile
attribute anyway, despite what the HTML 5 spec says.
* People who want to use GRDDL stick to XHTML 1.x.
* People who want to put data in their HTML documents use RDFa.
I don't particularly care for the rel="profile" design, but one should
choose ones battles and I'm not inclined to choose this one. I'm content
for the market to choose.
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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