Re: Expanding the HTML <link> Element

> This is unlikely to happen: HTML is essentially frozen now,
> in favour of XHTML.

And considering that HTML already offers a weak extensibility mechanism in
the from of a profile attribute on the head element, this is even more
unlikely. However, the rationale behind link types has been discussed for
some types, and a great number of link type values have been enumerated.
Background reading:-

http://fantasai.tripod.com/qref/Appendix/LinkTypes/ltdef.html
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tomrobin/HTML_Link_Types.html

That's a lot of link types.

> I think this is where people start muttering about metadata
> and RDF.

Perhaps, and XHTML 2.0 will address this issue. Of course, the RDF-in-XHTML
thing has been discussed all too often now. More background reading:-

http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/
- HyperRDF: Using XHTML Authoring Tools with XSLT to produce RDF Schemas

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Aug/0218
- RDF-In-XHTML; A "New" Approach

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global#profiles
- Meta data profiles, HTML 4.01

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Apr/thread#206
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Apr/thread#241
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Apr/thread#274
- Threads From RDF IG, April 2001

Personally, I do not think that embedding RDF graph serializations into
XHTML is at all a good idea, even for a canonical form. Data in
documentation should be carefully scoped.

Cheers,

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Sean B. Palmer
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Received on Monday, 15 October 2001 19:16:24 UTC