- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:38:13 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C RDFa task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On 15 Oct 2007, at 12:25, Ivan Herman wrote: > Bijan did not copy this to the RDFa task force, though the content of > the mail is really relevant for this group, because he proposes an > extra > RDFa syntax. (Bijan, I hope that is all right with you.) It's fine. > My initial reaction on what he proposes: it does make sense. If we > define some sort of a general 'pre-processor' or hGRDDL formalism, > that > could be a typical case for it. I would not have a problem saying > that a > preprocessor goes through the DOM tree before processing and would > change each occurrence of: > > <.... content-date="2007-12-12" ...> > > into > > <.... content="2007-12-12" datatype="xsd:date" ...> > > by delegating that into the preprocessor the syntax document's formal > processing steps might stay unchanged. That sounds reasonable. > Having said that: at the f2f meeting last week we, sort of, decided to > get into a 'feature freeze' mode as soon as possible to get the syntax > document out and on the Rec track. This may be one of those features > that might be relegated into a future version... That's understandable. I'll just add that personally I'll have difficulty recommending RDFa (at least with datatypes) with the existing syntax. For some applications that might be fine as I could post processes plain literals by a combination of sniffing the content and knowing something about the property. Cheers, Bijan.
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