Re: [w3c-wai-er-ig] <none>

> This would be a good place to include the who/when/
> what/why/how information in the form of RDF assertions,
> including a claim of conformance in whatever detail we could
> envision - sort of like the Accessibility Description Language
> thing Len proposed. Since one can have more than one profile
> URI, there are other possibilities, but the opportunity to achieve
> signivicant indexing at essentially no cost is compelling.
> [...] Am I missing something?

Yes, there is still the caveat: <head xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
profile="[...]"> doesn't mean anything at the moment becase there is no
schema for it, although that doesn't stop us writing one (see quick example
[1]) and importing
it into the namespace (especially as it is a unique attribute).
Really, we need to be able to either:-
1. Embed RDF into the file in the first place
2. Link to it using XLink or some other XML reference technology. Using
<head profile="[...]">, <meta> or <link> isn't good enough for XML
processors which haven't got a clue what they should do when they run across
them.

[1] Took about 5 seconds cutting and pasting stuff into this, so don't
assume correctness(!) In fact, this still doesn't tell processors to grok
the profile target [@@need to tie this into the XLink namespace somehow]:-

  <?xml version='1.0'?>
  <rdf:RDF
     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
     xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="[TBD]">
    <dc:title>RDF Schema For The XHTML Profile Attribute</dc:title>
    <dc:author>Sean B. Palmer</dc:author>
    <dc:date>2000-10-25</dc:date>
  </rdf:Description>
  <rdf:Description ID="profile">
    <rdf:type
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
    <!-- This is a hack for now: --><targetNamespace

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</ta
rgetNamespace>
    <rdfs:label>profile</rdfs:label>
    <rdfs:comment>Specifies the location of one or more meta data
     profiles, separated by white space. For future extensions, user
     agents should consider the value to be a list even though this
     specification only considers the first URI to be significant.
   </rdfs:comment>

</rdfs:isDefinedBy>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-prof
ile</rdfs:isDefinedBy>

<rdfs:seeAlso>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#profile</rdfs:
seeAlso>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
"Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
   - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.

Received on Saturday, 25 November 2000 11:44:36 UTC