discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 09:27 -1000, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > "They [comments] are not part of the document's character data; an
> > XML processor MAY, but need not, make it possible for an application
> > to retrieve the text of comments."
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments
> 
> 
> The structuredblogging.org formats embed XML in HTML by putting it within 
> SCRIPT elements, which preserve the character data.

Using <script> would certainly be superior to comments, and I believe
Aaron Swartz has said he would've taken that approach had he thought of
it.

<script> is not ideal, as outlined at
http://infomesh.net/2002/rdfinhtml/#objectOrScript

We're sticking with html embedded in comments until rdf/a is ready to
replace them rather than migrating to a better kludge in the interim.
We're also supporting the rel=license microformat and may do more with
microformats going forward.

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