Julian Reschke wrote: > Ben Adida wrote: >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>> Microformat-defined rel and class values have their usual semantics >>> regardless of whether one links a GRDDL transform converting them to >>> RDF. >> >> How is mnot going to figure out what those semantics are to generate a >> proper link-type header? Will all microformats be added to the IETF >> link-type registry? > > Could you clarify which specific microformat you're concerned with here?
Here are a few: hReview, xFolk, hCard, hCalendar, hAudio and other Microformats that use rel-tag, rel-purchase, rel-nofollow, rel-directory, rel-enclosure, rel-home, and rel-payment * hReview uses rel-tag for tags and scalar tags * xFolk uses rel-tag to build a distributed remote resource tagging construct * hCard can use rel-tag for categories * hCalendar can use rel-tag for categories * hAudio uses rel-purchase for purchase information, rel-enclosure for downloadable files. In practice, @profile is not used and thus the semantic meaning of these terms is ambiguous and only truly "understood" by a Microformats parser. A non-Microformats parser would ignore these @rel values, thus creating a situation where a Microformats-aware parser would extract different meaning from a document vs. a non-Microformats-aware parser. The situation is the same with a GRDDL-aware parser vs. a non-GRDDL-aware parser. However, I don't think that's Julian's point. I believe that his point is that, because of CURIEs, you have a two-stage process instead of a one-stage process. For CURIES, you must: 1. Read the value in @rel. 2. Lookup the prefix mapping and append the reference to the prefix. For GRDDL, you must: 1. Read the value in @rel. 2. Process the @rel value via XSLT. For Microformats, non-CURIEs, etc., you must: 1. Read the value in @rel. Is that your issue, Julian? That because of CURIEs/RDFa, you have to do more now to determine what @rel really means? -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. Absorbing Costs Considered Harmful http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful
