Re: RDFa Question, Clarification

Hello Toby...

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>
>> I have over the last year been studying something I have started calling
>> Metaformats - Languages that describe other languages, RDFa is a
>> Metaformat used to primarily describe RDF vocabularies in html.
>
> Martin, although RDFa *can* be used to describe RDF vocabularies, 
> that's not its primary purpose. Its primary purpose is, basically, to 
> do what microformats do - to add semantics to human-readable HTML.
>
> Yes, that includes:
>
>> <div id="location" typeof="geo" about="#location">
>>         <span property="latitude" content="53.7552">N 53.7552</span>,
>>          <span property="longitude" content="-2.3675">W -2.3675</span>
>> </div>
>
> <div xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
> typeof="geo:Point" id="location" about="#location">
>   <span property="geo:lat"  content="53.7552">N 53.7552</span>
>   <span property="geo:long" content="-2.3675">W -2.3675</span>
> </div>
>
>> <div id="weborganics" typeof="vcard" about="#weborganics">
>>        <span property="fn">Martin McEvoy</span>
>>        <span rel="photo">
>>                <img src="http://weborganics.co.uk/site/photo/1/me.jpg"
>> alt="weborganics"/>
>>        </span>
>>             Contact: <a rel="email"
>> href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a>
>>             Web: <a rel="url"
>> href="http://weborganics.co.uk/">WebOrganics</a>
>> </div>
>
> <div about="#weborganics" id="weborganics" typeof="v:Vcard"
> xmlns:v="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#">
>   <span property="v:fn">Martin McEvoy</span>
>   <img src="http://weborganics.co.uk/site/photo/1/me.jpg"
>   alt="weborganics" rel="v:photo" />
>   Contact: <a rel="v:email"
>   href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a>
>   Web: <a rel="v:url"
>   href="http://weborganics.co.uk">WebOrganics</a>
> </div>
>
I think I posed  my question wrong

What I mean Is I DON'T want to reference ANY namespaces.

The reason why I ask this question Is because In the Microformats 
Community one of the FIRST thing's that you learn is that Namespaces for 
Content  has failed and should be avoided, so much so that even 
discussing namespaces in Microformats is a "Taboo" subject.

see: http://microformats.org/wiki/namespaces-considered-harmful

Which is confusing to to people who publish Microformats and are 
Considering RDFa as an enhancement or replacement.


Best Wishes

Martin McEvoy

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:49:14 UTC