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

Wed Feb 6 09:06:36 PST 2008

On 06/02/2008, Martin McEvoy <info at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Er, yes - that one is :-)

I'm not sure, but the only reason the other microformats don't have
GRDDLable profiles is lack of interest by the microformats core group.
I (and others) pushed a lot to try and get profiles for the
microformats, but the best response we got was the suggestion of using
the Wiki URIs as profile URIs. Which would be fine, but to support
GRDDL would need one of the Wiki administrators to make the
appropriate changes...and there doesn't seem any enthusiasm.

> <head  profile="http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
>
> which is ugly and tentatively poor or even invalid markup,

Ugly, yes, but I think perfectly valid according to the html spec.

> 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?

Right, that kind of thing would be an improvement. An even neater one
was (I think) sugested by Dan Connolly. Make a joint profile for all
the common microformats, so all you'd need is:

<head  profile="http://wherever/all">

Not sure about the current status, whether anyone's actually working
on this. Will check.

Cheers,
Danny.

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