Re: Absorbing Microdata

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:19:53 -0400
Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> 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.

I do not think this is a good idea. RDFa and Microdata have different
methods for establishing subjects, etc. If you actually tried to parse
a document that contained both RDFa and Microdata this way, you'd end
up with a jumble of nonsense.

RDFa and Microdata each have a well-defined algorithm for parsing into
an RDF graph. Just parse each and then merge the graphs.

PS: if you think @itemref is similar to @about, you need to re-read the
Microdata draft spec! There is nothing similar to @itemref in RDFa.
Implementing support for it was probably the toughest part of my
Microdata to RDFa converter.

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Toby A Inkster
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