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State: RAISED OPEN PENDINGREVIEW CLOSED POSTPONED
Product: None alt techniques authoring guide canvas 2d context Encrypted Media Extensions HTML 5 spec HTML 5: The Markup Language HTML Principles/Requirements HTML WG website HTML+RDFa HTML5 differences from HTML4 HTML5 Spec - PR Blockers Media Source Extensions Microdata Polyglot pre-LC1 alt techniques pre-LC1 authoring guide pre-LC1 HTML 5 spec pre-LC1 HTML+RDFa testsuite W3C publications
Raised By: Glenn Adams Adrian Bateman Robin Berjon Michael Cooper Paul Cotton Erika Doyle Navara Steve Faulkner James Graham Ian Hickson Lachlan Hunt Kris Krueger Philippe Le Hégaret Larry Masinter Matthew May Shawn Medero Ben Millard Jay Munro Joshue O Connor Edward O'Connor Frank Olivier Julian Reschke Gregory Rosmaita Sam Ruby Mark Sadecki Janina Sajka Doug Schepers Richard Schwerdtfeger Cynthia Shelly David Singer Henri Sivonen Jerry Smith Michael[tm] Smith Manu Sporny Maciej Stachowiak Everett Zufelt Adrian Bateman
Description: The microdata section, currently listed as Section 5 Microdata does not enjoy broad consensus. Per Manu Sprony[1]: "There will be a forthcoming HTML5+RDFa proposal that may either be published along-side the Microdata specification or in place of the Microdata specification. RDFa is a alternate technology that is currently published as a Recommendation via the W3C . An additional alternative that is being proposed is the removal of Microdata and RDFa from the HTML5 specification and the placement of each section into a separate specification that is implemented on top of the HTML5 standard." In addition, the charter for the HTML WG mentions: "The HTML WG is encouraged to provide a mechanism to permit independently developed vocabularies such as Internationalization Tag Set (ITS), Ruby, and RDFa to be mixed into HTML documents. Whether this occurs through the extensibility mechanism of XML, whether it is also allowed in the classic HTML serialization, and whether it uses the DTD and Schema modularization techniques, is for the HTML WG to determine." The current microdata section precludes this Charter requirement. Currently, issues of how to ensure that RDFa work with HTML are being discussed within the RDFa in XHTML Taskforce [2]. The HTML WG should work with this group to ensure a consistent and unified approach to semantic metadata, as it relates to HTML 5. [1] http://html5.digitalbazaar.com/specs/html5-warnings-diff.html#microdata [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/ HTML5-SPEC-SECTIONS [microdata]
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See ISSUE-41
Possibly related email search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&tbo=1&num=50&tbs=qdr%3Ay&q=site%3Alists.whatwg.org+%2BRDFa+&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Additional discussions related to this topic: Thread beginning with this post http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-January/018220.html Thread beginning with this post http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019601.html Thread beginning with this post http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019672.html The WhatWG Wiki on Microdata http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Microdata_Problem_Descriptions Ian Hickson's post listing emails reflecting his decision to create the Microdata section http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0207.html
Additional information: A loose set of notes on RDFa, XHTML, and HTML 5 http://realtech.burningbird.net/web/page-markups/loose-set-notes-rdfa-microdata-and-html5 Use cases and comparison of RDFa/HTML5 microdata http://realtech.burningbird.net/semantic-web/semantic-web-issues-and-practices/use-cases-and-comparison-rdfahtml5-microdata One use case: annotation http://realtech.burningbird.net/web/standards/annotation Another use case: searchcase http://realtech.burningbird.net/web/standards/searchcase
Discussions in the HTML WG email list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0701.html A note related to the vcard predefined vocabulary http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0489.html Does anyone like Microdata? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0732.html
Ian Hickson's summary document listing the use cases used to derive microdata, and his interpretation of requirements http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019374.html
Posting of same note from Ian Hickson, but on HTML WG and related discussion http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Apr/0208.html
[MikeSmith]: see also the discussion at http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7542
TAG support for ISSUE-76: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8220