Re: Early draft is up

> On 18 Mar 2016, at 17:45, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:
> 
> On 18/03/2016 12:36 , Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 17:10, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote: A
>>> first step for this would be to use the HTML validator. It's not
>>> constraining enough, but it would certainly already catch issues.
>>> The only problem with that is that it only supports RDFa Lite,
>>> whereas SH uses a little bit of RDFa Full. Ideally, I'd like to get
>>> rid of that and rely only on Lite — input on achieving this
>>> welcome.
>> 
>> @darobin, can you point out which are the features that are not RDFa
>> Lite? I am happy to look at it (though I cannot promise that
>> something can be found)
> 
> There is at least one case in which we use @about (for roleAffiliation).
> I think we could probably use @resource instead.

I believe so.

> 
> When more information is available than ought to be *shown* (but it
> still should be shared), we recommend meta@content. We could use spans
> with CSS display: none but that's a bit dodgy, or we could have JSON-LD
> islands (but that gets verbose and increasingly weird).

I believe RDFa Lite works with meta and @content. My distiller definitely accepts it…

But looking at the RDFa Lite spec it indeed does not list @content. Ouch…:-)

> 
> We also use @datatype to mark how precise dates are (it is common to
> only have a year). I guess that could be skipped since it's easily
> inferred from content. But we also use it to mark content as rdf:HTML —
> removing that capability would be more problematic.
> 

yes, datatype is definitely out.

> Actually, writing all this down I think it would be simpler to fix the
> HTML validator :)
> 

If there is a need to fix it, which is the @content issue. The problem is to get it through Mike, who would do anything to kill RDFa in the first place, and not help it…

Ivan


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