- From: Simone Onofri <simone.onofri@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:14:39 +0200
- To: "Keith Alexander" <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Hausenblas, Michael" <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org>, "W3C RDFa task force" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, eyal.oren@deri.org, "Frédérick Giasson" <fred@fgiasson.com>, uldis.bojars@deri.org
On 8/31/07, Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:02:34 +0100, Simone Onofri > <simone.onofri@gmail.com> wrote: > > > However, one thing _really_ bugs me: Our nice (X)HTML+RDFa documents are > ignored by 'Semantic Web search engines' as ptsw [2] or sindice [3]. > People, move on! > > Also Semantic Radar [1] may be involved in it and the most simple way > is to use DTD itself to identify an RDFa. > > Actually, a @profile would be the most simple way to indentify RDFa ;). I > don't think there is any cross-browser javascript, or xslt, way to check > for a DTD. > > Also, when RDFa is finished, will there not be several DTDs (for each > supported version of HTML/XHTML)? Whereas there only needs to be one > profile. > > (profiles are also useful while the syntax is still being finalised, as > documents can link to the transformation that matches the syntax they > used.) > > Admittedly, it is easier to check for a specific DTD (or @profile), than > for arbitrary @profile uris, and following them to see if they are > GRDDLable, but if a tool such as semantic radar or ptsw does so, it would > be able to find more RDF (such as eRDF and GRDDL-enabled microformats). > > Anyway, sorry, I'll stop harping on about it now. Yes You're right, profile is great, so also with GRDDL there are questions to get @profile in new versions on (X)HTML... but this is another story. > > Keith > Cheers, Simone
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