Revisting this ~a year later... It looks like schema.org is converging on RDFa Lite:
http://blog.schema.org/2011/11/using-rdfa-11-lite-with-schemaorg.html http://blog.schema.org/2012/06/semtech-rdfa-microdata-and-more.html Manu Sporny makes a solid case that RDFa Lite is the one to go with: http://manu.sporny.org/2012/mythical-differences/ Schema.org has a proposed vocabulary for technical documentation too: http://blog.schema.org/2012/06/newvocabularies-for-technical.html With Docbook 5 and HTML 5, what's the situation with putting schema.org markup into Docbook books (whether through microdata or RDFa Lite) today? Norm put this customization together: https://gist.github.com/docbook/2768701 So to get that to work, I'd need to modify my xsl to pipe it through to the html, right? If I do that, what are the chances of it being accepted into a future release? - Josh ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jirka Kosek" <ji...@kosek.cz> > To: "Joshua Wulf" <jw...@redhat.com> > Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:12:54 PM > Subject: Re: [docbook] RFE: RDFa in Docbook 5 > > On 13.12.2011 3:28, Joshua Wulf wrote: > > > I'm not sure if I have it right, but it seems that Docbook 5 with > > its > > xml schema base supports adding RDFa data to the xml with no > > problems. > > What I'd like is to have that RDFa data flow through to the built > > html > > output. > > Hi Joshua, > > could you elaborate more on you requirements. What's usecase for > having > RDFa in DocBook? > > > I've opened the RFE against the XSL stylesheets rather than against > > the > > DTD/schema because (I think) that's the only place that changes > > would > > need to be made. Have I opened it in the right place? > > Probably no. If we decide that adding RDFa into DocBook is good idea, > schema has to be modified first. If you look at > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/ you will see that special > atttributes > like property, rel, about, resource, datatype are needed to convey > RDFa. > If you want to use RDFa in DocBook similar attributes has to be added > into DocBook. > > Once this is done, appropriate change in stylesheets has to be done > as > well to pipe these metadata to XHTML output. > > But it would be really interesting to know what problem are you > trying > to solve. Honestly, future for RDFa doesn't look very bright IMHO. > Currently it can be used only in XHTML, not in HTML. It seems that > approach chosen by microdata/schema.org has more chances on the > market. > But we will see. > > Jirka > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: ji...@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org