Re: microformat profiles using purl.org

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:09 +0000, Brian Suda wrote:
[...]
> What are people's thoughts. Is it worthwhile to have a single master
> profile, or is the modular approach better? The downside of a massive
> profile would be that it "squats" on all the terms. So if you are only
> using XFN, it is redefining all the other terms within the page as
> well.

That cost seems pretty small, to me. Where does it show up?
I guess a straightforward GRDDL implementation would run several
pieces of XSLT, but if that cost got big, somebody
could produce an optimized XSLT transformation to replace the
individual pieces.

When I have actually tried to exploit data from multiple
microformats on one page, I tend to need a little bit more
smarts/semantics than the microformats specs give you...
things to connect events to people or something; I can't
remember the details just now. So I end up making
my own profile.

I think the specific case was
http://www.w3.org/2007/07dc-lhr/aa-lhr

Hmm... it seems that I just used eRDF... I thought
I had made stronger conclusions from my markup than
the microformats specs warranted. I guess I made
the stronger connections explicit with eRDF.

The eRDF transformation seems to explicitly
check for the eRDF profile; it doesn't work
when invoked indirectly, so this idea didn't
work:
  http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/cardcaletc


>  The up-side is that it is only 1 URL to include.
> 
> I can bring it up on the microformats list for a clarification if one is needed.


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