Dan Brickley wrote:
On 17/1/09 19:27, Sam Ruby wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Shelley Powers
<shell...@burningbird.net> wrote:
The debate about RDFa highlights a disconnect in the decision making
related
to HTML5.
Perhaps. Or perhaps not. I am far from an apologist for Hixie, (nor
for that matter and I a strong advocate for RDF), but I offer the
following question and observation.
The purpose behind RDFa is to provide a way to embed complex
information
into a web document, in such a way that a machine can extract this
information and combine it with other data extracted from other web
pages.
It is not a way to document private data, or data that is meant to
be used
by some JavaScript-based application. The sole purpose of the data
is for
external extraction and combination.
So, I take it that it isn't essential that RDFa information be
included in the DOM? This is not rhetorical: I honestly don't know
the answer to this question.
Good question. I for one expect RDFa to be accessible to Javascript.
http://code.google.com/p/rdfquery/wiki/Introduction ->
http://rdfquery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/markup/markup.html is a
nice example of code that does something useful in this way.
cheers,
Dan
I agree, and appreciate Dan for pointing out a specific instance of use.
Apologies for not making the assertion explicit.
Shelley
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