Re: Another way other than @profile, @vocab or @map

Yeah, this has a certain elegance to it.  It's a little 'hacky' too, but 
I don't mind hacky.

Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Hello Toby
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> On 16/03/2010 19:17, Toby Inkster wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:38 +0000, Martin McEvoy wrote:
>>   
>>> With all the above in mind,  RDFa could I think re-use an attribute
>>> name that already exists in htm5, microdata to be more precise
>>> "itemtype"[1]. RDFa could be used pretty much like microdata eg:
>>>
>>> <div itemtype="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#" 
>>> about="#BusinessEntity"
>>> typeof="VCard">
>>> <div property="fn">L'Amourita Pizza</div>
>>> <div rel="adr">
>>> <div typeof="Address">
>>> <span property="street-address">2040 Any Street</span>,
>>> <span property="locality">Springfield</span>,
>>> <span property="postal-code">98102</span>.
>>>                Tel:<span property="tel">206-555-7242</span>.
>>> <span rel="url" resource="http://pizza.example.com/"></span>
>>> </div>
>>> </div>
>>> </div>
>>>      
>> I like the general idea, but how about reusing typeof instead:
>>
>> <div typeof="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#VCard" 
>> about="#BusinessEntity">
>>    <div property="fn">L'Amourita Pizza</div>
>>    <div rel="adr">
>>      <div typeof="Address">
>>        <span property="street-address">2040 Any Street</span>,
>>        <span property="locality">Springfield</span>,
>>        <span property="postal-code">98102</span>.
>>      </div>
>>    </div>
>>    Tel:<span property="tel">206-555-7242</span>.
>>    <span rel="url" resource="http://pizza.example.com/"></span>
>> </div>
>>
>> This should be pretty easy to make workable: whenever typeof contains a
>> full URI (CURIE versus URI can be determined by checking whether
>> xmlns:http has been declared yet), then it sets the default prefix (by
>> trimming back to the last non-QName character - in the example above
>> '#') for unprefixed tokens. In the case where typeof contains multiple
>> tokens (space-separated), then the first one wins.
>>
>> This may well be more author-friendly than external profiles; plus it's
>> going to make parsing a bit faster, not needing to dereference external
>> files.
>>    
>
> I like it Toby, allowing @typeof to accept a full uri is a lot better 
> than my idea and easy to use in RDFa and very little extra cost for 
> parsing,
>
> +1 from me on that one too ;)
>
> Best wishes
>

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