Ian Davis wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote:
I also agree w/ Kingsley that it would be neat to also have a <link>
pattern that non-RDFa folks could use:
<link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic";
href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mogwai_(band)" title="Mogwai" />
I have been promoting the use of the simpler "primarytopic" rel value
as a pattern for linking HTML pages to the things they are about. I
don't think we need to complicate things with pseudo namespaces etc
for HTML, just focus on something simple people can copy.
You can see it in use on data.gov.uk:
http://education.data.gov.uk/doc/school/500006
contains:
<link rel="primarytopic" href="http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/500006"; />
Ian
Ian,
I really don't believe we achieve much via:
<link rel="primarytopic"
href="http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/500006"; />
"primarytopic" isn't an IANA registered type link.
If you absolutely need to use foaf then its better to qualify it:
<link rel="foaf:primarytopic"
href="http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/500006"; />
Yes, its a PITA for the average HTML user/developer, but being
superficially simpler doesn't make it a valid long term solution. There
is a standard in place for custom typed links re. <link/>.
Links:
1. http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml
2. http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-07.txt
-- guide for registering new link relations is in section 4.1
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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