- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:02:13 -0500
- To: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- CC: dc-general@jiscmail.ac.uk, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, iptc-metadata@yahoogroups.com
It is great that you are looking at XHTML 2 and its RDF support for this. Silly question, but is there a reason that you can't just interpret the value of @content as a QName in your article processors? Or does that seem like a hack? And if it does seem like a hack, would you like to see another attribute added that would mean "the value of this property is this qname?" If so, do you have a suggested name? Similarly, would something like <h property="dc:subject" content="your:Qname">The actual subject</h> instead of adding a dc:subject element to the markup language? or does that fly in the face of compactness? Misha Wolf wrote: >As some of you will know, the XHTML2 draft [1] introduces a >very interesting syntax for RDF, which many would consider to >be an improvement on the traditional RDF/XML syntax. No doubt, >many content authors will be seeking to add DC metadata to >their XHTML2 content using these new mechanisms. > >The News Architecture Working Party of the International Press >Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is investigating the use of >XHTML2 for expressing DC and other metadata. A major problem >for us is the lack of support in the current XHTML2 draft (as >in RDF/XML) for the use of QNames to express terms in >controlled vocabularies (aka values of properties). > >At the moment, the XHTML2 @content attribute takes PCDATA and >the @href attribute takes IRIs. There is no attribute >available for QNames. > >We want to be able to use, eg, <dc:subject> with a QName as a >value (ie the object of the RDF statement). The reasons include >legibility and compactness. News items (and news headlines) >often carry numerous subject codes, hence the need for >compactness. > >Is anyone else in the DC community looking at the use of DC in >XHTML2 and thinking along similar lines to us? We would be >very happy to work with others on this issue. > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2 > >Misha Wolf >Standards Manager, Reuters >Chair, News Metadata Framework WG, IPTC >Vice-Chair, News Architecture WP, IPTC > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com > >To find out more about Reuters Products and Services visit http://www.reuters.com/productinfo > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual >sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be >the views of Reuters Ltd. > > > > -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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