- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 21:18:05 -0000
- To: "Matt May" <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> They can't afford indexing tools to produce RDF Sorry, missed that. RDF is easy to generate, and/or extract from HTML, but it's best use comes in describing "pure" XML. As I see more and more XML applications and langauges being banded about, they invariably don't have decent metadata frameworks included with them (even XHTML is inadequate with its meta elements). RDF provides that framework for anyone wanting to add indexing to their pages. As for a lack of tools, have a look at Dave Beckett's site: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources It may be that such indexing is provided for accessibility tools of the future that read accessibility claims written in EDL etc. The future, as always, is very hard to predict, but it is us who shape it... Happy holidays, Sean B. Palmer http://infomesh.net/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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