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  • From: Carol Spears <carol AT gimp.org>
  • 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: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:52:03 -0800

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:04:15AM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 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.
>
can you expand on this?

carol





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