- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:04:26 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, 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: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Harry Halpin wrote: >> You don't have any problems with GRDDL's use of profile if it's a >> @rel="profile", or GRDDL's use of @rel="transformation", correct? > > I think that declaring metadata vocabularies is a bad idea regardless of > the syntax. However, the <link rel=""> feature is explicitly intended as > an extension point for people who want to do whatever they want to do, so So is head/@profile. > from an HTML5 perspective it's fine. The profile="" attribute is worse > because it encourages other people to make the same design mistake, and it Which design mistake? > misleads people into thinking that they have to declare their > vocabularies, and it misleads people into thinking that other people will > declare their vocabularies. I think it's a good design to declare a vocabulary. >> Yes, that would be true, but you'd have to explicitly add it to your >> list of GRDDL transformations. Which is also work. > > It's work you will have to do anyway, since not all microChemistry users > will label their documents as using microChemistry. How do you know that? > It's also only work for the GRDDL users who care about microChemistry, > which is likely less than the number of microChemistry users. > > >> So, for agents when encountering a profile that has a transformation >> that is not locally cached, they could "dynamically" run the GRDDL >> tranformation by going to the profile page. > > Only if the profile page declares the GRDDL transformation, which is > unlikely in practice. Why is that unlikely? Lots of assumptions... BR, Julian
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