[whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

[Philip Taylor]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> One of the more elaborate use cases I collected from the e-mails sent in
> over the past few months was the following:
>
>   USE CASE: Annotate structured data that HTML has no semantics for, and
>   which nobody has annotated before, and may never again, for private use or
>   use in a small self-contained community.
>
> [...]
>
> To address this use case and its scenarios, I've added to HTML5 a simple
> syntax (three new attributes) based on RDFa.

There's a quickly-hacked-together demo at
http://philip.html5.org/demos/microdata/demo.html (works in at least
Firefox and Opera), which attempts to show you the JSON serialisation
of the embedded data, which might help in examining the proposal.

-- 
Philip Taylor
excors at gmail.com