Re: review of GRDDL by (X)HTML working group(s)?

Hm. I am obviously a bit worried about this, for reasons you cite below.
This may easily degenerate into a religious debate on microformats vs
RDF, XML vs. non-XML, and world peace in general...:-(

Thinking about it... isn't it correct that all the issues that might be
commented and discussed are typical last call issues? With GRDDL heading
for PR at the moment, it strikes me as being too late.
Interested/worried parties had their possibilities to comment...

Besides: GRDDL is diligently following the designs and technical
decision of existing recommendations. Possibly being under the pressure
for radically changing the GRDDL design on request from a group that did
not even exist when the GRDDL WG started is, well, possibly inappropriate...

Ie, my current feeling is that we can move on without this.

DanC, thanks for having raised the issue...

Ivan


Dan Connolly wrote:
> Hmm... in a Hypertext Coordination Group, I just realized
> review of GRDDL spec/tests by HTML Working Group(s) might
> be in order.
> 
> For example, GRDDL uses the head/@profile attribute, which
> is dropped in the current HTML 5 draft
> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/
> 
> Optimally, the HTML WG (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/) would say
> "yes, we think those GRDDL tests are good text/html documents,
> and we're convinced to add head/@profile back in". The
> odds of that are fairly low; I'm not sure I have bandwidth
> to do the relevant advocacy/argument.
> 
> Pessimally, the HTML WG would say "you're using text/html
> for XHTML documents, which we think is wrong; stop it."
> 
> Another risk is that we'd get 57 new messages to
> our comments list; messages that include conspiracy
> theories about market leaders and such as often as
> "please change X to Y" spec suggestions.
> 
> Asking the XHTML 2 WG (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ ) is also
> perhaps worthwhile.
> 
> As team contact, I'm somewhat obliged to recommend that we
> solicit review from these groups. But, Harry, you should
> think over the risks carefully before we do it. Others
> are welcome to advise.
> 

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