- From: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:13:35 +0000
- To: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org, iptc-metadata@yahoogroups.com
[belatedly, changing the subject line] Hi Ben, > Does this mean you're expecting to extract triples using GRDDL > only, or are you also trying to use RDF/A so that a standard > XHTML2+RDF/A parser would be able to extract the metadata > accordingly? There are three parts to my answer: 1. The codes. As RDF/A stands today, I don't believe that a standard XHTML2+RDF/A parser would be able to extract the triples. If you folks were interested, we could discuss some way of decoupling the XHTML2+RDF/A model from the XHTML2+RDF/A syntax, so that our syntax could become a particular syntactic expression of the XHTML2+RDF/A model. I would be very interested in such a possibility. An HTML comparison that comes to mind is with <centre> vs <div align="center">, the former being a syntactic expression of the latter. 2. The textual metadata (what we call 'labels'). Our current proposal is that these consist of XHTML 2, so all XHTML2+RDF/A rules and tools would apply. 3. The payload. As NewsML is payload-agnostic, this is more difficult to answer. OTOH, most News is text, and textual News (within the News industry) carries markup. There are two main camps within the News industry when it comes to text markup: (a) those who favour the IPTC's own NITF markup language, and (b) those who favour XHTML. Reuters is in the second group. During a discussion at our meeting in Milan last week, it was clear that these two different approaches are not going to go away anytime soon. So the bottom line is that where the News provider chooses to use XHTML 2 for textual content, all XHTML2+RDF/A rules and tools will apply to the payload. Where the News provider chooses to use NITF, they won't. Misha ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com To find out more about Reuters Products and Services visit http://www.reuters.com/productinfo Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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