- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:00:41 +0100
- To: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
Peter Krantz wrote: > On 1/5/08, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote: >> <i property="shipping:shipName">Titanic</i> > > Well, the great thing about RDFa is that you can use which element you like, > the document will still be machine readable. If this was a document in > english (where ship names apparently are in italics), a chinese user could > still use their tools to parse the document and extract the same unambiguous > data. Beyond the typographical convention of italicising ship names in English prose, what compelling use case is there for extracting such a ship name from such prose? Why would an author have any desire to add such markup using a custom vocabulary that few tools, if any, will understand and even fewer users would have any use for? It seems to me that simply using <i> for the ship name (perhaps using a class name for additional styling purposes) fulfills the the typographical convention use case, without the unnecessary addition of RDFa. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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