- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:31:17 -0700
- To: peter.krantz@gmail.com
- Cc: dorchard@bea.com, public-html@w3.org
RDF-A is most suited for capturing what I conceptually think of as "cross-cutting" concerns --- so: You have a document tree -- <div>...<p>...</p>...</div> that reflects the logic of your content; but additionally, you need to encapsulate metadata that "cut across'that hierarchy e.g. declare that some paragraphs are citations from elsewhere. New elements might often fulfill that use case, but that's not the only usecase that requires new elements. In a world where one can attach style and behavior to content via XBL, it becomes fairly easy for sites across the Web to simplify their markup by introducing small, tightly focused specialized vocabularies Peter Krantz writes: > > On 9/25/07, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> wrote: > > > > The TAG has reviewed the proposal in > > http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/02/HTML5-and-Distributed-Extensibility. > > In short, we believe it is a very interesting start of a proposal for > > stronger support for distributed extensibility on the web in the HTML > > language. > > I am not sure I understand the full implications of the referenced > proposal yet. What is the purpose of extending HTML 5 with custom > elements? Can it be solved with RDFa which is on the agenda for > inclusion in HTML 5 or is there a need for both? > > Regards, > > Peter -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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