- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:27:07 +0100
- To: bob@snee.com
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
* 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. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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