White Flag! was RDFa and Microformats

Hello Shane, Ben,  all,

Sorry about one or two of my previous emails It must be the Irish in me 
making me passionate about thing I care about, or something!

Shane McCarron wrote:
>
> That's the funniest thing I have read in ages.  I was crying I laughed 
> so hard.  Thanks for adding a little levity to this painful 
> discussion, Martin.
I am glad someone at least can see the funny side. If someone tries to 
condescend to me I will do it back that is only fair.

some part's of it are serious though ...
>
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>
>> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>> Hello Ben,
>> [...]
>>>> Feedback on this is welcome, of course, but seeing as how this has 
>>>> been
>>>> a consistent principle of RDFa for the last 3-4 years, through Last
>>>> Call, CR, and now PR, I doubt that we would give serious consideration
>>>> to proposals that so substantially weaken RDFa.
>>>>   
>>> How about Its already been done without RDFa...
example of a whole document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <link rel="profile" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#" 
title="vcard"/>
        <title>vCard RDF</title>
    </head>
<body>
<h1>vCard</h1>
<div class="vcard.vc" id="weborganics">
    <p><span class="vc.fn">Martin McEvoy</span></p>
    <p><img class="vc.photo" alt="weborganics" 
src="http://weborganics.co.uk/images/weborg.jpg"/></p>
    <p>Contact: <a class="vc.email" 
href="mailto:info@weborganics.co.uk">Email</a></p>
     <p>Web: <a class="vc.url" rel="me" 
href="http://weborganics.co.uk/">WebOrganics</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

The above is an example of how to reference a namespace document safely 
in xhtml by using Explicit Name Based Referencing and Scope.

I had an xslt going on this sometime back in november last year, it was 
very efficient at generating triples but alas it was just a concept 
(just to see if I could), the difference between the above and rdfa, as 
far as I can see, is the above doesn't require anything new, and uses 
concepts that publishers and authors can easily become familiar with?
there are probably a few inconsistencies with the above approach  but 
what the hell, even my grandmother could learn it. ;-) 


Best Wishes

Martin McEvoy

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:38:24 UTC