Mikael,
isn't the point that RDFa is not part of HTML and although it is
available in XHTML, validators of HTML will choke on it unless it is
included in that spec? and most people are not using XHTML,
unfortunately. So doesn't it make sense for the DC community, for
example, to ensure that it does become part of HTML 5??
Liddy
On 04/01/2009, at 9:22 AM, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
>
> Liddy,
>
> I agree about the usefulness of RDFa! It's a new spec, so we're still
> waiting for publishing tools etc to implement it.
>
> I've seen a lot of discussion on W3C lists on HTML5 and RDFa, and I
> think there are many working on making that combination work.
>
> There's also been lots of discussion about WAI-ARIA,
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/ , which you probably want to look at
> even
> though I'm certainly no expert in the area.
>
> /Mikael
>
>
> sön 2009-01-04 klockan 09:06 +1100 skrev Liddy Nevile:
>> First - Happy and Safe New Year to everyone.
>>
>> I am wondering how many people have been using RDF/A to put their
>> metadata into the docs so that instead of just identifying something
>> as a heading, for example, it can be identified as the title (or
>> dc:title) and another bit of text as the author's name (dc:creator)
>> and affiliation and a particular link as a reference to the source
>> documents, etc?
>>
>> This is so much smarter than trying to bung stuff into a meta tag, it
>> seems to me - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
>>
>> Problem, as I see it, is that this is a technique for those using
>> XHTML and most people are using HTML, and it is not part of valid
>> HTML. I am wondering if there is interest in this problem - if people
>> want to use RDF/A, surely it should be included in the new versions
>> of
>> HTML? (HTML 5 is being developed right now.)
>>
>> I would like it a lot because it would also make it much easier for
>> people to do really significant and helpful things about
>> accessibility, tagging content for what it offers and helping people
>> find alternatives to content components that they cannot use...
>>
>> Liddy
>>
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