ISSUE-144 (Add @itemref-like attribute): Add an @itemref-like attribute to RDFa [RDFa 1.1 in HTML5]

ISSUE-144 (Add @itemref-like attribute): Add an @itemref-like attribute to RDFa [RDFa 1.1 in HTML5]

http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/144

Raised by: Manu Sporny
On product: RDFa 1.1 in HTML5

Martin Hepp has asked us to consider adding an @itemref-like attribute to RDFa. Here is an excerpt of his request:

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You need itemref whenever you want to publish:

1. non-trivial data structures (e.g. GoodRelations patterns) 
2. from visible markup 
3. in non-toy HTML, i.e. the size and complexity of HTML templates used in today's shop systems. 

With non-toy HTML, I meant that the RDFa textbook-style examples all assume short, valid, nicely organized HTML templates that come from  single source, and in our work, we see:

- long,
- invalid,
- messy and unstructured HTML
- that is also often generated from different software components and collated before returning it to the requester.

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While we have discussed adding this feature to RDFa previously[1], Martin Hepp seems to have *new* implementation experience demonstrating the need for such a feature. We should request a number of examples from Martin, and examine if the evidence shows the need for a new @itemref-like attribute in RDFa.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-data-tf/2011Oct/0099.html

Received on Monday, 5 November 2012 01:03:03 UTC