Makes sense to me. Thanks! Bob
On Mon, January 29, 2007 9:17 am, Mark Birbeck wrote: > > Bjoern is exactly right. (At least on the naming...not about it being > a silly endeavour. :) > > In its early days it was called RDF/XHTML, since it was devised as an > XHTML serialisation of RDF. So yes, you are right that the idea was > that RDF/x denoted a way of writing RDF. This was never really > satisfactory, since the idea was always to allow the same technique to > be used in other XML languages. > > Since one of the key components of technique was to be able to > 'decorate' normal mark-up with meta data via attributes, then RDF/a > soon became preferable, with the only reason for changing from RDF/a > to RDFa being based on nothing more than Google searches, I'm afraid. > > All the best, > > Mark > > > On 29/01/07, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> * Bob DuCharme wrote: >> >Where did the name RDFa (or before it, RDF/a) come from? Take "RDF" and >> >add an "a"--why? Does it mean "assertion"? Or does it represent the >> HTML a >> >element, which is a popular element in RDFa syntax for wrapping PCDATA >> to >> >make oy the object of an RDF triple? Or does it stand for a slightly >> >altered fork of RDF the way you might add step 2a between step 2 and >> step >> >3? >> >> Well, RDF/XML is RDF encoded as XML, RDF/N3 is RDF encoded as Notation3, >> and RDF/A is RDF sillily encoded as yet more [a]ttributes. >> -- >> Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de >> Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de >> 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ >> >> >> > > > -- > Mark Birbeck > CEO > x-port.net Ltd. > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 > w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ > > Download our XForms processor from > http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > >
