- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:02:10 +0900 (JST)
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
> Joseph Reagle wrote: > > [As a preliminary aside, I note that this page: > > http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/06/a_pox_on_validations_house.php > > which talks about the problem of RDF in XHTML for trackbacks -- and > > includes embedded RDF (html/body/div/RDF) -- is said to be valid?! > > How can that be? "Phil Ringnalda" <phil@philringnalda.com> wrote: > > [ [Doubly aside: I'm not ever going to live down that ill-considered, > accidently-published rant, am I?] Not only is > http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/08/trackback_and_validation_summary.php a > better intro to TrackBack and validation, since my blood pressure was down, > it's also the genesis of how my site is "valid" with embedded RDF: I cloak. > If the User Agent is one of the validators, I don't include the RDF. It's > cheating, but it feels better than hiding it in comments, where XML parsers > are allowed to discard it before it ever has a chance to see an RDF parser.] [ Triply aside: It's odd that the W3C Markup Validator says the above document is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional when it's actually not even well-formed ... ] > > o validation XHTML: it'd be good if the host page is validatable XHTML. > > At least from TrackBack's side of the fence, that's not a "good", it's a > MUST. That was the impetus for the mad flapping around looking for a way to > make it validatable last summer: for good or ill, there are enough > influential webloggers who won't do anything if involves invalidating their > XHTML that TrackBack probably would have flopped without the evil > inspiration to comment it out until something better came along. I'd like to see more sample instances together with scenarios so that I can test. Depends on what level of validation you want, I have several schemata to validate XHTML part without bothering foreign namespaces. We need to clarify what kind of validity we are talking here, though. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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