Re: GRDDL

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:56, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>>> ...
>>>>> I'm not sure if abusing HTML is the right characterization, but the 
>>>>> GRDDL setup violates the The Rule of Least Power TAG Finding.
>>>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how using XSLT 1.0 violates that finding (please 
>>>> elaborate);
>>> XSLT is in a more powerful language category than (scriptless) HTML 
>>> or any of the notations for RDF triples.
>> > ...
>>
>> That's true. But how do you use RDF triples or scriptless HTML to 
>> extract RDF out of (X)HTML?
> 
> You do this:
>> - Document the mapping between the host language and RDF, do not touch 
>> the host language, and have transformers for each of the languages, 
>> triggered by contenttype/doctype/xmlnamespace.

That doesn't scale. It doesn't work with my homegrown vocabulary/markup 
style (remember: distributed extensibility).

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 6 August 2008 09:48:41 UTC