Re: @profile everywhere proposal

On 22/02/2010 23:08, Ben Adida wrote:
> On 2/19/10 1:19 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> Julian, Tantek and I will be proposing a @profile everywhere spec on the
>> HTML WG in the next month. It would be defined for HTML5, but could be
>> extended to HTML4.01 and XHTML.
>
> Is the idea to simply concatenate @profile with the keywords, or does 
> the profile list a bunch of keywords that can resolve to any URI as 
> defined by the profile?
>
> How do we best keep this in sync with the RDFa WG's discussions?
>

I believe that @profile would be most useful (in RDFa) to define a 
default vocabulary or namespace.

Example

<div profile="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
         typeof="Person">
<span property="name">Ben Adida</span>
<a rel="homepage" href="http://adida.net/">http://adida.net/</a>
</div>

It would keep the use of prefixes and the use of xmlns down to a minimal.
I think if RDFa, Microdata and Microformats all adopt the use of 
@profile in this way they would all have a common ground.

Great stuff I think.

Best wishes.

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Received on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 09:58:27 UTC