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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] a rel=meta for license embedding ?
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:04:15 +0200

On Dec 23, 2005, at 01:09, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

Is there some reason you can't use RDF embedded in HTML comments, apart
from ugliness?

I can't recall what the normative text says about HTML, but as far as XHTML goes, the XML spec allows XML Processors not to pass comments to the application. Since comments are not safe for software consumption, putting metadata in comments is a bad idea.

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Henri Sivonen
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