Re: RDFa Lite inside <info>

Norm Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 10:35:21 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.text.docbook.misc
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Dave Pawson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 at 10:17, Norm Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Yes, the information should appear in the HTML source. If I'm not
>> > mistaken, RDFa Lite is currently not supported for the XSLT 1.0
>> > stylehsheets. This would need a customization layer (which I already
>> > have).
>>
>> I’m pretty sure they’re supported by the xslTNG stylesheets.
>
> What's the logic for making metadata available in HTML please?
> (To me) metadata is for 'other purposes' than viewing?

I don’t know what Thomas has in mind, but I’ve often wanted to have
metadata pass from the DocBook sources to the HTML so that it’s
available for other downstream processing. For example, so that
JavaScript can read it.

> And @ndw - what's your view on the relationship (difference) between
> metadata and annotations please?

I tend to think of metadata as being about the document (this is it’s
title, this is it’s publication number, this is the set of keywords
related to it, etc.) and I tend to think of annotations as being
commentary for human readers. Of course, some metadata *is* usually for
human readers, like the document title, and you could write annotations
that weren’t intended for display. I can imagine using annotations, for
example, to track an editorial process but having them stripped out of
the final publication.

I’m quite pleased with the way the annotations are handled in the
annotated XML Catalogs specification I published last week:
https://xmlcatalogs.org/catalogs-1.1.html

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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