- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:37:41 +0100
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- CC: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
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
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