- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:19:53 -0400
- To: RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
Here's an interesting idea from Sebastian Heath via Twitter: > sebastianheath: Has anybody thought about merging rdfa and microdata > via @itemprop? So that itemprop/property are interchangeable. #rdfa > #microdata It's interesting because I can almost see an alternative document that tells RDFa processors how to interpret Microdata markup via the RDFa Processing rules. Note that this would be a document that is completely external to RDFa Core, XHTML+RDFa, and HTML+RDFa. The preliminary updates to the processing rules in an external document that would allow this to happen are below. Here is the translation table from Microdata to RDFa: Microdata RDFa --------- ---- itemscope typeof="" itemref about="#ITEMREF_VALUE" or about="FULL_URI" itemtype typeof="ITEMTYPE_VALUE" (OVERRIDES itemscope) itemprop property="FULL_URI" or property="MODDED_ITEMPROP_VAL" where MODDED_ITEMPROP_VAL is "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#" + attribute value of itemprop. There are still problems with nesting itemprops/itemscopes and the types that Microdata has specified for vcard, vevent and work... don't know if anybody else has looked at this yet. Just throwing it out there. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Saving Journalism - The PaySwarm Developer API http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/
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