Plain text loses context under copy and paste as well. I doubt it is possible to express complex cultural phenomena without context of any kind. When you paste a fragment of another document, you usually have to provide some information about the context of the fragment. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:25 AM To: Henri Sivonen Cc: Ben Adida; whatwg@lists.whatwg.org; 'Manu Sporny'; Kristof Zelechovski Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa statement consistency >> I like GRDDL, too, but it has problems with respect to scaling similar >> to microformats. Things will get complicated when you want to combine >> statements from different vocabularies on the same page. > > The completely prefixless microformat naming approach isn't good when > different microformats overlap and common words have been allocated > badly. It works if you can decide that all classes that are on > descendants of a class identifying a format root belong to that format > (i.e. the subtree root is effectively the prefix). Yes. But in that case the format is fragile under copy&paste, just as prefix-based approaches.
