Re: microdata

It seems like Hixie finally agreed on virtually all of the principles
that RDFa was created upon except maybe he thought ours was a bit on
the complex side. I felt a little bit that way, but still it seems
like you really don't know who you work for sometimes. C'est la vie.
Why can't people just work together, get along, blah blah.. sigh.

On a little side technical note, at first I was worried that only
Java-package naming style was allowed but it does says URIs are
allowed as well.

Here are the principles...

     * Should be possible for different parts of an item's data to be given

       in different parts of the page, for example two items described in the

       same paragraph. ("The two lamps are A and B. The first is $20, the

       second $30. The first is 5W, the second 7W.")

     * It should be possible to define globally-unique names, but the syntax

       should be optimised for a set of predefined vocabularies.

     * Adding this data to a page should be easy.

     * The syntax for adding this data should encourage the data to remain

       accurate when the page is changed.

     * The syntax should be resilient to intentional copy-and-paste

       authoring: people copying data into the page from a page that already

       has data should not have to know about any declarations far from the

       data.

     * The syntax should be resilient to unintentional copy-and-paste

       authoring: people copying markup from the page who do not know about

       these features should not inadvertently mark up their page with

       inapplicable data.

     * Any additional markup or data used to allow the machine to understand

       the actual information shouldn't be redundantly repeated (e.g. on each

       cell of a table, when setting it on the column is possible).

     * Parsing rules should be unambiguous.

     * Should not require changes to HTML5 parsing rules.

     * Creating a custom vocabulary should be relatively easy.

     * Distributed vocabulary development should be possible; it

       should not require coordination through a centralised system.

     * It should be possible to publish and re-use custom

       vocabularies.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Elias Torres <elias@torrez.us> wrote:
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> http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019681.html
> -Elias

Received on Monday, 11 May 2009 13:42:14 UTC