Re: [Fwd: Why not date=? (was Re: ODF and semantic web)]

Bijan,

Thanks for your input on this.

I'm reluctant to special-case any vocabulary, because not everyone
agrees on what should be special-cased. A generic syntax has significant
advantages.

That said, I understand the desire of web publishers to make their lives
easier when they have a lot of repetitive content to produce. For this
reason, I sincerely believe we will need to push a generic
pre-processing approach, one that I've called hGRDDL in the past. The
idea is simple:

- declare a profile in your HTML file: @profile="my-rdfa-shortcuts-url"

- the profile URL points to an in-line transform for the page, probably
implemented in JavaScript, that effectively expands all of the shortcuts
you want using the DOM API.

- the RDFa parser acts on the modified DOM.

In other words, I concur with Ivan that we should push this off until
after the first release of RDFa, but I want to point out that I agree
with your overall goals and that I think we have a solution on the way
for just this kind of optimization.

-Ben

> I guess my main point is that I'd prefer to optimize a bit for  
> authorship (even tools can be helped by being made easier) and, a  
> bit, for HTML5.
> 
> So two things that might make life easier as an author:
> 	Some canonical property sets (e.g., Dublin Core). I don't want to  
> declare namespaces here
> 	A combined property/value attribute.
> 
> E.g., propertyV="creator Bijan Parsia"
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.

Received on Thursday, 18 October 2007 00:01:43 UTC