Re: Chicken/egg and the "meanwhile problem"

> > 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.
> What "XML processors"? Why can't their cluelessness be abrogated?

I suppose I meant SW processors. It will be aborogated when definitions of
how to process XHTML are written. I haven't even written a Schema yet for
the example of using profile, so it isn't really valid (i.e. makes too much
sense) yet. See [1]

> If the RDF information from <head profile="[...]"> exists on the Web (and
> we now have at least one instance thereof!) then why couldn't it be
> retrievable by something WELL short of an AI implementation?

It can, but by a hybrid XHTML/RDF processor only...

> Even if this is labeled a "hack" it could avoid an absurd amount of
"syntax
> negotiation" such as is currently enrapturing the RDF world, not to
mention
> whether XHTML will ever be ubiquitous. In point of fact, one could impose
> this "hack" on any HTML file RIGHT NOW and the resultant profiles would
> FOREVER be available without too much wringing of purist hands?

I suppose, but the more independant a system is, the nore you need to
describe it. Something that is mainstream takes less describing. [1] If you
want to continue using this "ADL predecessor" you could use a similar set of
elements to what you have right there on your example site at the moment,
but just bag them instead:-
glname e.g. "W3C WAI WCAG"
glversion e.g. "1.0"
gluri e.g. "http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10"
level e.g. "AAA"
proselevel e.g. "Triple A"
comment e.g. "This site conforms to the W3C's WAI WCAG 1.0 Guidlines at the
Triple A (AAA) conformance level"
This would be easier to write an RDF Schema for. Do you want me to proceed
and write an RDF Schema for it?

> Results trump perfection.

You know me, I like to proceed with caution!

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.

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