- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:09:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, 'Steven Pemberton' <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Mark Birbeck wrote: > > Very useful comments - thanks. My pleasure! Like I said, I think this is a great idea. Probably the best way of doing RDF I've seen so far. > I agree with you that is also a useful syntax, but I have been trying to > find a way of supporting both constructs - the indirection one and this > one. The problem is that if you make <link> and <meta> refer to their > parent element (which is also nice from an RDF viewpoint), then you have > to come up with a way of indicating that the statements inside <head> > refer to the document. I had some ideas on that, but decided to leave > them for later - however, hopefully if the general view is that the > proposal is going in the right direction then we can try to tackle the > subtleties. Yes, I can understand that problem. >> Authors hate indirection. > > Mmm ... and some authors love it! Oh, of course! :-) I was just talking about the "Average Joe" author -- the guy one step away from using only an authoring tool. These are the most common authors on the Web, solutions really have to involve them. > My main goal was to try and provide a number of ways of expressing > information, such that the author could choose whatever level they felt > comfortable with - but with the ultimate goal that the many systems we > have for dealing with metadata could take advantage of the wealth of > information contained in documents. I think that's a great goal. :-) -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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