On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:03 AM, Duncan Cragg wrote:
The microformats community works on the basis of having the data
embedded into the HTML. The RDF/SemWeb approach looks to have a
consistent data model, and then having as many representations as
you
like of that data model. The data model for microformats differs
based
on which tool you use (perhaps it's in a key-value-pair array, or an
object, or in an XML format) - even though it's getting the same
syntax (HTML or XHTML). With RDF, you have the same model (subject,
predicate, object) but with different syntaxes (XML, JSON,
(X)HTML-with-GRDDL, N3/N-Triples, TriX, the new JavaScript proposal
that's been circulating on the W3C semantic web mailing list,
internal
memory models, SQL table etc.
Thats not quite right - the data model for any given microformat is
clear. I think the 'common JSON representation' idea is a good one to
help clarify this.
I may have come late and missed this - what is this 'common JSON
representation' of which you speak??
It's a hypothetical standard syntax for exchanging microformat
representations, being discussed on the microformats-dev list (as it
would only be used by developers). Just like RDF, it would tell a
parser everything about the structure of a schema, but nothing about
the meaning. Of course HTML already does that.
Peace,
Scott
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