Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 27, 2008, at 16:33, Smylers wrote: So that is one disadvantage of URIs: they are long. In fact they are so long that people have gone to the bother of inventing additional syntax to avoid having to write them out. Moreover, having to look up the URIs is a major pain when writing

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-27 Thread Smylers
Manu Sporny writes: Ian Hickson wrote: there are a number of technical merits that speak in favor of RDFa over Microformats (fully qualified vocabulary terms Why is this better? Emulated-namespace/Pseudo-namespace (EN/PN) vocabulary terms have been mentioned on this list during

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-27 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Of Smylers Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:33 PM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement) So that is one disadvantage of URIs: they are long. In fact they are so long that people have gone to the bother of inventing additional syntax to avoid having

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-27 Thread Křištof Želechovski
: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement) When you use non-prefixed vocabulary terms, the chances that there will be a vocabulary term conflict between two communities rises exponentially with relation to an increase in the number of total vocabularies. This approach is not scalable

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-27 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement) prefix short-hand via CURIEs This is definitely not better. I don't know where you're coming from since you haven't elaborated on that statement nor given a link to a document explaining your thought process. Since you haven't done so, all

Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features (was: RDFa Problem Statement)

2008-08-26 Thread Manu Sporny
Hi Ian, The second part of the replies to your questions regarding RDFa are below. Note that the list of technical merits I was affording RDFa was not meant to be exhaustive and I won't be adding to them in the body of this particular e-mail. There are additional ones, however, and we can get a