- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:55:43 +0100
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Manu Sporny wrote: > 1. Write a Microdata parser from scratch following the exact HTML5 spec > language. http://philip.html5.org/demos/microdata/demo.html (JS) and http://james.html5.org/microdata/ (Python) were written that way. (The spec language may have changed a bit since then, but I don't remember any substantial changes). Are these sufficient for what you're looking for? > 2. Mark up the entire RDFa Test Suite in Microdata (see which test > cases cannot be marked up). http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019732.html and http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019744.html suggest that it's possible to (inelegantly) express any arbitrary RDF graph using Microdata, as long as all literals are strings, and there are no cycles, and no blank node is used as the subject of two or more triples. So that should determine the set of test cases that cannot be marked up in a fashion that gives the expected triples. (I might have missed some other issues, though.) -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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