Is there any progress on (recursively) including XMDP profiles?
From the Wiki I gather: INCLUDES / AGGREGATE PROFILES [1] Methods for including one or more values, properties, or an entire XMDP into an other XMDP as a way of creating an aggregate profile that effectively contains definitions from multiple profiles would be quite useful. They would enable documents with microformats to simply refer to a single profile URL rather than a complete space separated set of all the profile URLs of the microformats that may be in use. PROFILES [2] * update XMDP with new required features: o ability for one profile to include/import another (rel="import" ?) o ability to reference an XMDP via rel="profile" (similar to XHTML2 rel value by same name) o ability/suggestion to reference an XMDP using <a href> in addition to <link> But, I'm wondering: do we even need anything new? Can the GRDDL profile, for example, not already be specified in the profile attribute of a document's XMDP profile? This requires an example: our document conforms to RDF Site Summaries [3] and has its profile set to [3]. [3] is an XMDP profile document that has [4] as its profile and with a profileTransformation rel set up. If [3]'s profileTransformation applies to our document, doesn't [3]'s data-view profile [4] also apply to our document? My question, then, is: is this an exception, or could this simply be extended to a rule? This rule could say: The profile of our document's profile also applies to our document. As a side effect, this rule _might_ obliterate the need for the profileTransformation rel value. I'm wondering if there's anything that would actually be broken by adding such a rule to XMDP... There probably is, but I need this idea to be shot down _properly_ before I can get it out of my head ;-) [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/xmdp-brainstorming#includes_.2F_aggregate_profiles [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/to-do#profiles [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/ [4] http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view Thanks for reading this, Rowan -- Morality is usually taught by the immoral.
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