RE: The Self-Describing Web

Steven,

Thanks for this. I note that I've raised an issue [1] a couple of weeks
ago regarding this TAG Note which has not been addressed [2] as far as I
know. Hopefully we'll discuss this at our upcoming telecon.

Cheers,
	Michael


[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/85
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0075.
html

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 Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
 Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
 JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
  
 http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org 
>[mailto:public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
>Steven Pemberton
>Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:41 PM
>To: XHTML WG; RDFa
>Subject: The Self-Describing Web
>
>
>RDFa group.
>
>The XHTML2 WG has noted the following paragraph from the TAG:
>
>http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments#UsingRDFa
>
>"Note: at this time, drafts of the [RDFa] specification are 
>available, but  
>the media-type registration for HTML itself has not been updated to  
>reflect RDFa. As described in TAG Finding [AuthoritativeMetadata],  
>conventions like RDFa are normative only if provided for in 
>the applicable  
>specification for the media-type in which they are used. Thus, 
>for RDFa to  
>be fully integrated with 2 The Web's Standard Retrieval 
>Algorithm, the  
>HTML and/or XHTML media-type registrations must be be updated. 
>Use of RDFa  
>is in any case encouraged in the interim until that happens."
>
>The XHTML2 WG has discussed it, and strongly disagrees with this text.
>http://www.w3.org/2008/02/20-xhtml-minutes.html#item08
>
>We don't believe that a change to the media type is necessary 
>to make RDFa  
>normative.
>
>Before sending a reply to the TAG, I thought the RDFa TF 
>should discuss  
>this.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Steven
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 14:26:34 UTC