- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:00 -0700
- To: Micah Dubinko <mdubinko@yahoo-inc.com>
- CC: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Micah Dubinko wrote:
>
> If the instanceof attribute were completely removed from RDFa, would any
> use cases be forclosed?
Yes, the original use case for chaining: e.g. adding an author to a
paper without having to manually give it a blank node name or repeating
a predicate.
There are generally a number of cases where the markup is much more
pleasant and readable with @instanceof.
> In discussions about RDFa with non-RDF-familiar people, instanceof has
> been harder for them to grasp.
That's interesting, although surprising and different from what I've
seen, where folks want to "add a type" quickly, e.g. a calendar event, a
business card, etc...
<div instanceof="cal:Vevent">
<span property="cal:dtstart"> ... </span>
...
</div>
If you had to give the event some random identifier, I believe that
would be worse and error-prone.
-Ben
Received on Tuesday, 18 March 2008 04:23:37 UTC