It would be good to find a volunteer to make an RDFa implementation on a tag soup HTML... Ivan Ben Adida wrote: > David, > > Of course we'd love to eventually make RDFa validate in HTML. That said, > we're taking this one step at a time: our group was chartered only for > XHTML1.1+RDFa. > > The RDFa syntax is defined in a DOM-based way, which makes it extremely > simple to port to non-XML HTML. In addition, just about every existing > RDFa tool you see will work quite well on HTML4 documents. > > I'm actually not sure where the extra DTDs you found came from, but I'm > perfectly happy they were built :) The point is that we'd love to see > this happen, but it's going to take some more lobbying and discussions > with the HTML5 folks. > > -Ben > > David Peterson wrote: >> Ben, >> >> You mentioned that the spec only exists for XHTML1.1 now, but this page [1] >> lists a spec for HTML 4.01 [2]. And when I look up the DTD sure enough there >> is some RDFa stuff in it. Are there any examples of this in use? I ask >> because I know of several developers who do not use XHTML and that was there >> main deterrent to RDFa. So if it worked and validated they would be likely >> to use it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> David Peterson >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RDFaInHTML >> >> [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/html401-rdfa-1.dtd >> >> -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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