Re: Can RDFa be used on XML: pharma information

[Ivan Herman]

I am sorry if I come into this thread very late. Additionally to what
Ralph just said, the RDFa distiller running on the W3C site:

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/

should actually work with an arbitrary XML file, although only SVG is
'announced' there (which is probably my mistake). If there is a problem
then, well... it is my bug:-(

Ivan

Ralph R. Swick wrote:
> At 10:48 PM 6/23/2009 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>> I see that the 2008 draft
>>  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/rdfa-overview
>> says
>> "RDFa itself is intended to be a technique that allows for adding metadata 
>> to any (XML) markup document, including SMIL, RSS, SVG, MathML, etc. Note, 
>> however, that in the current state, RDFa is being defined only for the 
>> (X)HTML family of languages."
> 
> The RDFa specification was designed with the intent that other
> languages than XHTML could take advantage of RDFa markup.
> (The terminology "host language" was used in some drafts
> to signal this direction.)  The charter under which the group
> was operating was specific to XHTML, thus the wording in
> the W3C Recommendation.
> 
>> So I think I will go ahead and add some RDFa markup to the
>> XML, 
> 
> By all means, reuse the RDFa vocabulary if it seems appropriate
> for your application.
> 
> 

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