RE: [xml-dev] RDF : Headless Triples syntax

At 11:48 AM +0000 2002-11-18, Jon Hanna wrote:
>  > The recommendation of WG to eschew embedding in XHTML and link in the RDF
>>  instead
>
>To what extent is that long-term advice, and to what extent merely a method
>that allows you to deal with there not currently being any way to put RDF in
>an XHTML document and remain valid XHTML?

On that note, is there any thought of using RDF/XML for metadata in 
future versions of HTML?

For example, something like:

<html xmlns="...">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="...">
<rdf:Description about="">
   <title>Page title</title>
</rdf:Description>
...
</rdf:RDF>

<body>
...
</body>
</html>

For XML-only implementations, you would require that the description 
of the page itself be the first child of /html/rdf:RDF and contain 
the html:title property. The script element could be replaced in a 
similar fashion.

It isn't backward compatible, but neither is XHTML 2. Even so, older 
browsers that just look for a "title" element can still interpret at 
least that much correctly.
-- 
Dave Menendez - zednenem@psualum.com - http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/

Received on Tuesday, 19 November 2002 18:24:52 UTC