Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-28: following your nose to the RDFa specification

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:47 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Since RDFa could be processed server-side by pipeline tools, and
> client-side by an assortment of parsers, then I think it's legitimate
> to have different ways that RDFa might be spotted. My interpretation
> of the proposal under discussion is that it would give us the
> following scenarios:
> 
> No DTD and no profile: it's legitimate to run an RDFa parser over an
> HTML/XHTML document, but you might not find anything.

This issue is about the case where you do find an RDFa
attribute (about/resource/etc); how do
you know that the author meant it in the RDFa sense?


>  At worse you
> might find things like <a rel="license" ... >, etc., which are already
> defined by HTML/XHTML.

No, at worse you get some triples out that the author didn't intend
because s/he didn't mean the markup to have RDFa meaning.

With no DTD and no profile, you can run an RDFa parser, but
I don't see how you can legitimately hold the author
to the triples you get out.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Thursday, 21 June 2007 12:57:02 UTC