On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger <at> gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> Markdown with RDFa on the side will suit quite nicely, thanks to pandoc.

Actually, you can embed the RDFa within the markdown files if you like.

<div property="x:section">

# Introduction

Test.
</div>

Pandoc will just pass it on to the output XHTML (though throw it out for the
context). But it's admittedly a little awkward to have to wrap the markdown with
XHTML every time to want to add a triple.

Probably the biggest barrier for semanticality so far has been what a struggle it is to incorporate into a fluid workflow. For instance yes that is a pain to mix the markup and RDFa, but even more so if you are coding straight XHTML (though visually it would look a bit less awkward, XHTML is already so verbose that adding in the semanticality feels annoyingly burdensome.)

If only markdown had some syntax for it, like

|x:test
# Introduction |x:section
Test.
||

Wishful thinking.

Cheers,
John C. Haltiwanger