RDFa simplification. Tumbled Logic - A couple of thoughts < The assorted witterings of Mo McRoberts. A couple of thoughts RDFa: Nice idea, but brittle. Very brittle. The reality of modern web development is often not one guy writing a plain HTML page and uploading it via FTP. Instead, the person running the website may be quite separate from the person who wrote, say, the templates, and different again from the people who know how the innards (in particular, the data models) work. If you use content negotiation and friends to spit out RDF separately from the HTML, it means it’s the responsibility of the people who look after the data models to craft, rather than people who know HTML and CSS. It strikes me very much that SPARQL is not well-understood by the vast majority of people.
Poppycock. My advice would be to separate out SPARQL from much of the rest of the ecosystem. Www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0915Berlin-KB/slides.pdf.