Re: Text vs Markup Datatype

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>wrote:

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> As I know you know, if you expect markup to be preserved, you. Can do this
> in RDFa only with the rdf:XMLLiteral and rdf:HTML datatypes, anything else
> will cause markup to be stripped. In microdata, all markup is stripped, as
> you can't indicate a datatype. Neither RDFa, nor any other HTML syntax I'm
> aware of have any special treatment for schema:Text.
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I guess that's my real point here.  I sure would like to use rdf:XMLLiteral
or rdf:HTML instead when I need to do so.

It is a crying shame that markup is stripped for things like descriptions
under all situations.  That will lead to people using escaped markup to get
what they want ... and I can't even imagine how that will actually work
well.

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics