- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:23:44 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On 10 Aug 2009, at 12:48, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> The cite and pubdate attributes now defined for the article and
> section elements don't seem to be very well designed. It's not
> entirely clear what problem they are meant to solve, or use cases
> they are addressing. They also violate the usual visible metadata
> pattern and duplicate much of the functionality of other features
> that are already in the spec.
Certainly both can be replaced with a little RDFa fairly easily.
<section id="foo" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" about="#foo">
<h1 property="dc:title">Foo</h1>
<p>
This section was first published at
<time property="dc:issued">2009-01-01 12:00:00</time>
and is based on
<a rel="dc:source" href="http://example.com/data">this data</a>.
</p>
</section>
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Toby A Inkster
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