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Hi László,
RDFa was originally designed for XHTML only. They are now discussing
ways to embed RDFa in other markup like HTML5; not sure about HTML4.
You can have a look at the RDFa working group wiki [1] or directly ask
to the RDFa mailing list [2].

HTH,
Irene

[1] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/wiki/Main_Page
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa/

Irene Celino
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2011/3/28 László Török <ltorokjr at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've started to play around with the GoodRelations vocab recently, after
> trying to add RDFa content to an existing HTML page I discovered that the
> RDFa was only defined for XHTML.
>
> Now, we know there HTML parsers are quite tolerant and always try to make
> the best out of broken or not 100% valid markup.
>
> My question is: Having a legacy HTML4 page, do I NEED to transform it into a
> valid XHTML page to be able to add GR markup as RDFa to it? Or just change
> the doctype and leave it up to the crawlers?
>
> I went through some of the sources (Google etc.) but none of them explicitly
> stated the importance of a valid XHTML markup. Does anybody have any
> experience wrt this matter?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
>
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