RDFa and its relationship to XHTML

Hello all,

I've added a post to the rdfa.info site to try to explain exactly how RDFa
relates to XHTML:

  <http://rdfa.info/2006/06/08/rdfa-the-gentle-road-to-rdf/>

The key points are that RDFa:

 * clarifies how existing metadata features in HTML should
   be interpreted;

 * provided enhancements to XHTML to facilitate more advanced
   concepts.

RDFa can therefore be used *today* for simple metadata structures
(rel="tag", for example), but provides many mechanisms to get more advanced,
should you need it. By being built on HTML metadata principles it takes a
generic approach--i.e., any language can be marked up and interpreted by any
RDFa parser, without having to know anything about the language being
parsed.

I hope this post goes some way to clarifying some of the recent confusions
around RDFa's relationship to HTML, particularly in the context of the
discussions on Drupal, microformats, GRDDL, and so on, and would welcome any
comments.

Regards,

Mark


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Received on Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:03:57 UTC