Re: how dirty can the HTML be, and still be RDFa?

On 25 Nov 2011, at 14:38, Peter Williams wrote:

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> Thanks. 
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> my question is really simple: is http://yorkporc.blogspot.com/2011/11/bob.html#me a valid webid profile? 

It seems ok to me.

It passes http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/

which returns the following n3 when I enter your webid above



Can I add that URL to the team members list? :-)

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> I though the WHOLE point of our adoption RDFa was that a fragment of suitably marked up div (cut and pasted, per a previous poster) could be inserted in any old (dirty) XHTML, tagged with the correct doctype? It was rather ambiguous whether the doctype was even really required, though.
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> This property was supposed to differentiate it from the previous approaches, produced by machines in some serialization format produced in an endpoint - little different to any other for the last 30 years.
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> if it is, following up the usual insults from our W3C chair, ill make a blog post with my own certs/keys - rather than use the values from the spec. 
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> (I just used the spec values so there was nothing to object to ...in raw conformance terms ... while I found a publishing platform that works and could be tested against the test suite and the 14 other implementations, as they adopt the new spec over the next month)
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> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:49:06 +0100
> > From: danbri@danbri.org
> > To: home_pw@msn.com
> > CC: public-xg-webid@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: how dirty can the HTML be, and still be RDFa?
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> > [snip]
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> > Re dirty HTML, this is a very real issue. HTML documents are usually
> > pretty crappy, standards-wise.
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> > I'd suggest looking into HTML5's approach. They have a much more
> > liberal parsing regime than XML (this was one of the major drivers for
> > the original WHATWG/XHTML fork).
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> > So http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/parsing.html#parsing and nearby define
> > ways of turning ugly worldy documents into a parsed structure. There's
> > a parser at http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ or
> > http://about.validator.nu/htmlparser/
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> > See also http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-parsing/
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> > cheers,
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> > Dan
> >

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