- From: <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:37:31 +0000
Quoting Philip Taylor <excors+whatwg at gmail.com>: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in >> over the past few months was the following: >> >> ? USE CASE: Annotate structured data that HTML has no semantics for, and >> ? which nobody has annotated before, and may never again, for private use or >> ? use in a small self-contained community. >> >> [...] >> >> To address this use case and its scenarios, I've added to HTML5 a simple >> syntax (three new attributes) based on RDFa. > > There's a quickly-hacked-together demo at > http://philip.html5.org/demos/microdata/demo.html (works in at least > Firefox and Opera), which attempts to show you the JSON serialisation > of the embedded data, which might help in examining the proposal. I have a *totally unfinished* demo that does something rather similar at [1]. It is highly likely to break and/or give incorrect results**. If you use it for anything important you are insane :) My general impression from writing the tool is that this proposal is, at least, easy to write consumers for. I get the feeling that the production side will also be within the grasp of most authors, although it is hard to say for sure since I haven't really tried authoring anything. [1] http://james.html5.org/microdata/ ** Known bugs include: incorrect lowercasing of non ascii characters, lack of support for resolving uris, lack of rdf output, some others that I forget
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