- From: Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:30:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
I just did a View Source on articles on web sites of several major magazines (People, Business Week, Newsweek, Der Speigel, Le Monde, The Economist, Readers Digest, and Rolling Stone) and they all have at least a few meta elements that use name and content attributes to store metadata, and most have more than a few of them. For example, do a View Source of http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/gb20070205_807318.htm. When XHTML 2 becomes a Recommendation, does this practice get deprecated in favor of using meta/@property instead (in which case URLs should be used instead of the tokens currently there)? If not, some sort of distinction between the two practices should be spelled out officially, because otherwise there's a lot of room for confusion. Does anyone even know of apps that read and use these meta[@name] elements? I think that their presence is good news for RDFa for several reasons: - even if no one is using the metadata, it's considered good practice to put it there - these elements are obviously being generated by software that would only need minor reconfiguration to generate RDFa instead a simple stylesheet can treat those meta[@name] elements as meta[@property] elements now Any thoughts? thanks, Bob DuCharme
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