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Subject: Re: [docbook] RFE: RDFa in Docbook 5
On 13.12.2011 13:50, Joshua Wulf wrote: > Some decisions are non-arbitrary, in the sense that there is only one > clear "right choice". For example: in a guide for beginners we would > omit information that is clearly for advanced use cases. In an > "Administrators Guide" we would omit information that is only of > relevance to Developers. For this you can use profiling. It's easy concept and well supported in tools: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html > What if... we could encode that information in the built html? > > In that case, as well as offering a set of predefined static narratives, > we could also offer the reader the ability to navigate the information > set along multiple potential pathways. In other words, the reader > participates in the creation of the narrative (in an assisted way), in > much the same way that an author would have created a "best guess" or > "one size fits all" narrative for them. You can implement this either on server-side and then you will work directly with DocBook/XML sources. If you want this work on client-side then you are stuck with Javascript and I don't think that I would like to manipulate RDFa in Javascript. > It also opens the door to more targeted search, the opportunity for > external systems to discover, consume, and mashup our content, and even > the possibility of expert systems that could use our documentation to > answer user questions. I have studied knowledge engineering and AI and since that time I'm little bit skeptic to such ideas. But this shouldn't prevent others from "trying". Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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