Re: GoodRelations: xmlns vs. prefix

I can't answer for GR in general, but this does seem a good point to
mention that an integration of Good Relations into schema.org is in
progress. At schema.org, the launch syntax was HTML5 Microdata, but we
have also been very involved in the discussions around RDFa 1.1,
particularly the Lite subset, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/ and are
supportive of the use of RDFa Lite as a syntax for schema.org
descriptions.

>From the Lite spec, "RDFa Lite consists of five simple attributes;
vocab, typeof, property, resource, and prefix.". It also says "In
XML-based languages, a document may still be labeled as a conforming
RDFa Lite 1.1 document as long as the usage of the xmlns attribute is
not used to declare CURIE prefixes." but as noted below, that is not a
popular mechanism to use in HTML

As for which format to use, I think that depends in large part on
which consuming applications and services  you have in mind. As far as
Google is concerned, people around here have noticed that a few Google
services already have some RDFa Lite capability, but that is still
being improved so we've not made a lot of noise about that yet. See
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets and
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/07/introducing-structured-data-dashboard.html
for  supporting tools.

cheers,

Dan

On 20 October 2012 06:38, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I didn't see a response either, but am hoping that Martin is just late in answering.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2012, at 04:33, richard.hancock@3kbo.com wrote:
>
>> Hi David and Martin,
>>
>> what was the outcome for your question? I didn't see a reply on the news
>> group.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard Hancock
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> HTML5 seems to be deprecating xmlns in favor of prefix attributes:
>>>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-rdfa-in-html-20120911/#xmlns--prefixed-attributes
>>>
>>> Can you please tell me whether GoodRelations plans to remove or deprecate
>>> xmlns in favor of prefix?  Do you have any guidance on how the community
>>> should use xmlns vs. prefix with GoodRelations during the transition?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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