Re: the "a" in "RDFa"?

* Bob DuCharme wrote:
>Where did the name RDFa (or before it, RDF/a) come from? Take "RDF" and
>add an "a"--why? Does it mean "assertion"? Or does it represent the HTML a
>element, which is a popular element in RDFa syntax for wrapping PCDATA to
>make oy the object of an RDF triple? Or does it stand for a slightly
>altered fork of RDF the way you might add step 2a between step 2 and step
>3?

Well, RDF/XML is RDF encoded as XML, RDF/N3 is RDF encoded as Notation3,
and RDF/A is RDF sillily encoded as yet more [a]ttributes.
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