- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:51:44 +0100
- To: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- CC: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hello Ben
Ben Adida wrote:
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>
>> Do you not feel that you are trying to hit something with a sledge hammer?
>>
>
> It may be a slightly larger hammer than necessary, but it's one that is
> already part of the RDF processing chain, so we get it for close to free
> instead of burdening RDFa processing with another entirely different
> technology.
>
>
>> a simpler approach may be to re-use XMDP profiles to define your vocab?
>>
>
> Simpler in terms of vocabulary definition syntax... maybe a little bit.
> But this approach has the same problem as Mark's approach, which is that
> you cannot get any triples until you dereference the vocab,
Can you get ant triples without dereferencing the vocab the way you
have proposed? I would like to see an example?
> so you can't
> even draw local conclusions, i.e. within a given web site, without
> hacking up your own special kind of triple store.
>
Well I don't know about that... suppose you used the google vocab for
your terms.....
<div profile="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#" typeof="Person">
<span property="name">John Smith</span>
<span property="nickname">Smithy</span>
<span property="url">http://www.example.com</span>
<span property="affiliation">ACME</span>
<span rel="address">
<span property="locality">Albuquerque</span>
</span>
<span property="title">Engineer</span>
<a href="http://darryl-blog.example.com/" rel="friend">Darryl</a>
</div>
No dereferencing needed is there?
Best wishes
--
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
Received on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:52:32 UTC