On Mon, 12 May 2003, Cecil Somerton wrote:
> Andy,
> Using the <head profile="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html">,
> won't user agents be restricted in their ability to "dereference the URI
> and perform some activity based on the actual definitions within the
> profile"? Is it important to note the restriction?
I dunno! Roland was asserting (I think) that the current DC in HTML RFC
*is* a profile - my working draft is no less appropriate?
I agree, that it would be nice for the URI to resolve to a
machine-readable description of the profile but that doesn't appear to be
a requirement currently ("This specification does not define formats for
profiles") and I'm not in the least bit convinced that this will ever be
the case or that user-agents will ever try to do this.
Therefore, providing a URL that is both
1) a unique and persistent URI for the profile
2) a link to a human-readable document
seems to be about the best we can do?
Andy.
> Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-profile
> "The profile attribute of the HEAD specifies the location of a meta data
> profile. The value of the profile attribute is a URI. User agents may use
> this URI in two ways:
>
> As a globally unique name. User agents may be able to recognize the name
> (without actually retrieving the profile) and perform some activity based
> on known conventions for that profile. For instance, search engines could
> provide an interface for searching through catalogs of HTML documents,
> where these documents all use the same profile for representing catalog
> entries.
>
> As a link. User agents may (e.g., authorize the usage of the profile
> within the current HTML document). This specification does not define
> formats for profiles."
> Thanks
> Cecil
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> Andy Powell
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> 2003-05-12 09:09 AM
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> Thanks for all the comments so far.
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> I've put up a new version of the working draft at
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> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dcq-html/
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> which I hope takes account of all the comments and discussions. The major
> changes are as follows:
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> - 2.1 fixed ' typo.
> - 2.4 moved the 'linking' section higher up the document and added note
> about using the XHTML built-in 'copyright' link type.
> - 2.5 added note about using 'hreflang' attribute on link element to
> encode target language.
> - 2.7 added note about use of 'profile' attribute on head element to
> provide the URI of this DCMI recommendation.
> - 3. changed 'URI' to 'W3CDTF' in examples.
> - 4. changed wording slight w.r.t. to use of lang vs. xml:lang.
> - 6. updated example in line with other changes.
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> Are we now in a position to move this to proposed recommendation and start
> formal comment period??
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> Andy
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