Re: hTurtle: A GRDDL-Compatible Microformat for Turtle-in-HTML

On 11/4/07, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure how you can call that a "microformat."

Well, by saying "hTurtle is a microformat". I disagree with the
implicit statement that I'm breaking a social convention.

> I'd say it's anithetical to microformat principles

Are there any principles that it breaks which isn't on the following list?

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2007-November/001272.html

I'll be dealing with the more explicit list in the appropriate forum,
but if you have any that you'd like to add then I'll address them
here.

> this is not just content "hidden" to a user, but to tools as well.

To which tools? XML Infoset tools? XSLT? SAX parsers? All of those
things support exposing the contents of comments. Python regexp? Well
that's what I used. hTurtle is a working system; it does exactly what
it says on the can.

You can refute the architectural plan, but it wasn't created as a
piece of architecture. You can't refute the engineering, or if you can
that'd be much more worthwhile to me since it would probably indicate
a bug in my Turtle tools or some other piece of the toolkit that I
care about.

> Whatever happened to the notion that metadata in comments
> is harmful?

Went the same way as the notion that QNames in attribute values are
harmful, I think.

-- 
Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/

Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 19:27:45 UTC