Why is there no RDFa syntax working draft?

Hello RDFa task force!

Can you tell me why there is no working draft of the RDFa syntax?

There is the Primer but the other docs are editor's drafts or a wiki page:
  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/syntax/  April 2007
  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RDFa     June 2007

If there was a WD I'd then have somewhere to complain about:
1) the way plain literal, typed literals and XML Literals are used.
   A mess.  There is no need for XML literals when simple will do.
2) the lack of profile so you cannot detect RDFa (raptor as used
   by http://triplr.org/ hits this problem)

Anyway, here's Triplr reading Ivan's RDFa-FOAF into turtle
  http://triplr.org/rdfa-turtle/http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.html
Note there is some wierdness like wot:assurance [ dc:title [] a h:a ];
I'm using a version of Fabian's XSLT to run this - I had to make
fixes to make it use namespaces properly with libxslt.


I just get the general feeling RDFa is not yet ready for
general use and it would be risky to endorse or use now.

... although I can appreciate the irony of emailing this as
the author of Turtle which is just a web page :)

Dave, speaking just for myself

Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:02:44 UTC