Re: Clarifying CURIEs [was Re: RDFa - Dublin Core Metadata - [Fwd: Draft of revised version of Expressing DC in X/HTML meta/link elements]]

+1. I very much agree, hGRDDL is very promising for these cases.

/ Niklas


On 8/11/07, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net> wrote:
>
>
> Ivan wrote, regarding the CURIE spec:
> > However. We clearly would need proper TF resolution on these issues.
>
> We have agreed (though not quite resolved) to include a complete CURIE
> description in the RDFa Syntax document. See [1].
>
> Mark wrote:
> > All of this could be done in a preprocessing step which might just be
> > Ben's hGRDDL proposal from before.
>
> Exactly, and in fact *all* of this can and should be handled with
> hGRDDL. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the point of
> the hGRDDL proposal is:
>
> GRDDL takes XHTML and outputs RDF/XML
>
> while
>
> hGRDDL takes XHTML and outputs XHTML+RDFa.
>
> So hGRDDL would take XHTML with DC markup, and, using a transform
> specified by the DC profile, sprinkle in the proper RDFa with the right
> syntax. For example, DC's example #1 would be processed as follows
>
> (note that I moved @profile from the HTML element to HEAD... I think
> they made a mistake?)
>
> ======
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>   <head profile="http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/07/27/dc-html/">
>     <title>Services to Government</title>
>     <link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />
>     <link rel="DCTERMS.subject" href="http://example.org/topics/archives" />
>   </head>
> ======
>
> The dc-html profile should specify both a GRDDL and an hGRDDL transform.
>
> The hGRDDL transform modifies the DOM as follows:
>
> ======
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>   <head xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
>     <title>Services to Government</title>
>     <link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />
>     <link rel="DCTERMS.subject dcterms:subject"
> href="http://example.org/topics/archives" />
>   </head>
> ======
>
> (Note specifically the addition of the namespace and the @rel value of
> dcterms:subject.)
>
> I've written up a paper about this which should see the light of day
> soon, and which I think will be crucial to link other syntaxes with RDFa
> without making RDFa a hodge-podge of different syntaxes.
>
> (And it's worth noting that I've implemented hGRDDL for hCard and
> hCalendar, and it works surprisingly well with very little code.)
>
> In other words, I think we can ignore this for now: we'll have a proper
> solution by transforming legacy syntaxes, rather than supporting them in
> RDFa core.
>
> -Ben
>
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2007Jul/0116
>
>

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