Re: RDFa and MicroFormats

Yes.  The validation is fine.  However, the default of RDFa Lite 1.1 means
that these documents will fail unless you select the appropriate dialect.
 RDFa Lite 1.1 is too limited for the metadata that we are generating.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Stéphane Corlosquet
<scorlosquet@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
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>> The validator accepts RDFa as far as I know.  Honestly I had not tested
>> with HTML5 yet.  I will do that soon.  I was still getting the tests to
>> exercise all the various combinations of RDF.
>>
>
> From my recent testing, HTML5 + RDFa validates pretty well on
> http://validator.w3.org/nu/, and the folks on the validator mailing are
> pretty helpful and responsive when there is a bug.
>
> Steph.
>
>
>>
>> As to being able to turn it off...  I appreciate your desire to have it
>> on all the time and not provide a mechanism to disable it, but I don't want
>> to piss anyone off.   Easy enough to make it mandatory at some point in the
>> future.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> On 03/07/2013 17:35 , Shane McCarron wrote:
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>>>> I note that somewhere along the line ReSpec was modified to generate
>>>> microformat compatible classes for things like authors.  That's fine,
>>>> and it is not *inconsistent* with RDFa.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It was definitely not meant to be :)
>>>
>>>
>>>  However, the way it is written
>>>> you get one or the other.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's just an artefact of us being banned from shipping RDFa by default
>>> because the validator rejected HTML+RDFa. If it were up to me, we'd always
>>> ship microformats, and RDFa, and microdata.
>>>
>>>
>>>  If you disable RDFa you STILL get microformats (since that is the
>>>> default right now).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think the validator accepts RDFa now, right? If so, I don't see the
>>> point in having a way to disable it. ReSpec has the metadata, it should be
>>> produced for all sorts of consumers without getting into politics.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shane P. McCarron
>> Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
>>
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> --
> Steph.




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Shane P. McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.