[uf-new] GRDDL Profiles and XMDP (was: Namespace anti-pattern ...)

Wed Feb 6 07:04:31 PST 2008

Hello Danny, All

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:56 +0100, Danny Ayers wrote:
> By using a
> profile URI and putting a description of the terms used in the profile
> on the Web 

You have got me thinking (ohoh!)

Do you not think that these profiles eg:

http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard

*should* or *could* be GRDDL profiles too. XMDP is good for humans but
the profiles could also be good for machines by embedding a GRDDL
profile in there too? useful I would say?

instead of this..

<head  profile="http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

which is ugly and tentatively poor or even invalid markup, 

we can do this

<head  profile="http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view#">
<link rel="transformation" href="http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard" />
<link rel="transformation" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />

Looks a lot more practical to me!

Thoughts?

Thanks
Martin McEvoy