Martin, 2009/6/27 Martin Hepp (UniBW) <[email protected]>: > So if this "hidden div / span" approach is not feasible, we got a problem. > > The reason is that, as beautiful the idea is of using RDFa to make a) the > human-readable presentation and b) the machine-readable meta-data link to > the same literals, the problematic is it in reality once the structure of a) > and b) are very different. > > For very simple property-value pairs, embedding RDFa markup is no problem. > But if you have a bit more complexity at the conceptual level and in > particular if there are significant differences to the structure of the > presentation (e.g. in terms of granularity, ordering of elements, etc.), it > gets very, very messy and hard to maintain.
Amen. Thank you for writing this. I completely agree. RDFa has some great use cases but (like any technology) has its limitations. Let's not oversell it. Tom.
