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<MarkB_> Steven is also delayed...his new computer has crashed!
<Ralph> Clocks in US move forward next week so telecon will be back to "normal" for Europeans next week
Mark: I've been thinking about using a bnode as the subject for about="" rather than the current document. This allows the document to move around (or be at multiple URIs). I am trying to write this all up
Ralph: I can remember discussions going back 8 years on this sort of issue
Mark: may also relate to the idea of named graphs and might make reification easier
ACTION: [PENDING] Mark, Steven, and Ralph respond to Ben's off-list draft of response to Bjoern [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/03/13-htmltf-minutes.html#action05]
Mark: I still want to read Ben's draft more carefully
Ralph: me too
ACTION: [PENDING] once Steven sends editors' draft of XHTML2, all TF members take a look and comment on showstopper issues only [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/02/06-htmltf-minutes.html#action01]
Mark: not sure of current schedule. The last time Steven and I spoke he was still working through the issues list
Ralph: is there anything in the RDF/A material that is delaying the editors' draft?
Mark: not that I'm aware, though Steven may have an action to add to some examples
Ralph: just want to be sure that if there's anything this TF can help with it's made known
[later in the meeting Steven confirmed Mark's impression that HTML WG was not in need of anything from this Task Force at the moment.]
ACTION: [PENDING] Mark work on a first draft of an RDF/A XHTML 1.1 module [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/03/06-htmltf-minutes.html#action01]
Mark: no significant progress since last meeting
Ralph: the idea of 1.1 modularization has growing interest. I've been getting a lot of pressure to document use cases better
Mark: I had some of that info in the wiki but the wiki got spammed. Ben's work has encouraged me to work on marking-up a real site
Ralph: is IPTC likely to adopt all of RDF/A, whether to markup HTML or some other vocabulary?
Mark: I did some work for IPTC to tweak RDF/A for them. CURIE abbreviated syntax is a key item for them. I've been wanting to add an abbreviation for ...
<span ....>
<meta property="a:b" content="c" />
</span>
such as
<span a:b="c">...</span>
Mark: this would mean every attribute in a foreign namespace would become a predicate, IPTC is very concerned about the size of their documents; a small change to a news item can add k-bytes of metadata. If we were to include such a feature in RDF/A then there would be no difference between the features IPTC is using and the features of RDF/A but IPTC would not be using XHTML 2. A standard RDF/A parser would understand IPTC documents
Mark: I was initially in favor but an issue was raised last time that gave me pause. It does get difficult to read if there's a long list of space-separated values for an attribute
Next Meeting: 3 April, 1300 UTC
[adjourned]