- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:04:17 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, "public-grddl-comments@w3.org" <public-grddl-comments@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote:
[snip]
>
> Well it also "allows" profile pages not to do anything useful with GRDDL,
> sure. But presumably it doesn't matter to GRDDL if those are present or
> not.
>
OK, there is a contradiction that GRDDL has to resolve in order to work
well with HTML in the wild *and* the possibility of profiles:
1) We want pages without profiles to work. Even if the microformat
community settles on @rel="profile" (which would be a minor delta to
GRDDL), there are still lots of pages with perfectly good data in the
wild that won't use @rel="profile" either.
2) Yet we want users to be able to specify their own profiles with their
own GRDDL transformations in order to explictly license the extracted
RDF and not force anyone to use any "default" transformations.
As pointed out earlier in GRDDL documents [1], is that these are
actually two different cases, since " the consumer of the RDF can only
trust GRDDL transformations when they have been explicitly licensed by
the author of the documents."
So, the obvious solution is to have GRDDL 1.1 deal with these two cases
separately.
1) Have a user-specified (i.e. user can turn it off and on) mode that as
a matter of local policy can be pointed to a namespace document (a URI
for a "list of default GRDDL transformations" for HTML, like hCard,
etc., perhaps maintained by the W3C) that contains a list of default
GRDDL transformations for popular microformats and vocabularies, and
apply these even if @rel="profile" is missing. Therefore, if the user
wants to be a bit unsafe, they can use this mode, but they can also turn
it off if they don't trust it, and point it to different "trusted" lists
of GRDDL transformations.
2) For users who use @rel="profile", get the GRDDL transformation and
then run it over the HTML5 DOM of the page. Minor change.
What we need to know from *both* the HTML5 community is simple: is
@rel="profile" in the spec, and does the community have consensus?
thanks,
harry
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-scenarios/#html_tidy_use_case
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