[html5] general question about the semantic web

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

On 5 Sep 2010, at 17:53, onno de jong wrote:
> To what extent did these semantic requirements drive the original development of XHTML 2?

Well, it was a design goal:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/introduction.html#aims

> and what role should these semantic indicators play in the way content ought to be marked up in HTML5?

q.v. Microdata and HTML+RDFa

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis