RE: Authors describing what their URIs mean

Could this be something to do with this issue :

http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#faq-html-compliance

Summary: The RDF FAQ suggests how RDF meta data might be included in HTML.
The suggested approach is fails HTML 4.01 and XHTML validation.

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Danny Ayers
http://www.isacat.net

<- -----Original Message-----
<- From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
<- [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Seth Russell
<- Sent: 14 April 2001 22:00
<- To: Charles McCathieNevile; Lee Jonas
<- Cc: 'Aaron Swartz'; RDF Interest; RDF Logic
<- Subject: Authors describing what their URIs mean
<-
<-
<- From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
<-
<- > Right. And the best way to do that is for the creator of the URI to say
<- what
<- > the URI means, not for a third party to guess and then assume
<- that their
<- > guess is correct. (Until we get the telepathic web).
<-
<- Right!!  And where the URI is a URL to a web page, the best way
<- to do that
<- is simply to embed the RDF description of exactly what the
<- author intended
<- the URI to denote right there between <head> ...</head>.
<-
<- The strange thing, that I can't figure out, is: even though the W3C
<- recommends this (see quote form M&S below ),  one can almost
<- never find such
<- descriptions on their pages.
<-
<-    Why?
<-
<- Of course, we also need a good schema that would deconfuse these
<- use\mention
<- terms like "denote", "name", "reference", "describes", "models", "sinn",
<- "bedeutung"  .....
<-
<- Seth
<-
<- Quoting:  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#transport
<-
<- "Descriptions may be associated with the resource they describe in one of
<- four ways:
<-
<- 1.  The Description may be contained within the resource
<- ("embedded"; e.g.
<- in HTML).
<- 2.  The Description may be external to the resource but supplied by the
<- transfer mechanism in the same   retrieval transaction as that
<- which returns
<- the resource ("along-with"; e.g. with HTTP GET or HEAD). "
<-
<- ...[snip passages that don't apply] ...
<-
<- "The recommended technique for embedding RDF expressions in an
<- HTML document
<- is simply to insert the RDF in-line as shown in Example 7.7. "
<-
<- Example 7.7:
<-
<- <html>
<- <head>
<-   <rdf:RDF
<-     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
<-     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#">
<-     <rdf:Description about="">
<-       <dc:Creator>
<-  <rdf:Seq ID="CreatorsAlphabeticalBySurname"
<-    rdf:_1="Mary Andrew"
<-    rdf:_2="Jacky Crystal"/>
<-       </dc:Creator>
<-     </rdf:Description>
<-   </rdf:RDF>
<- </head>
<- <body>
<- <P>This is a fine document.</P>
<- </body>
<- </html>
<-
<-
<-
<-

Received on Saturday, 14 April 2001 14:31:04 UTC