Dont Repeat Yourself

Last updated on 10 November, 2005 at 07:42 PM [edit] [history] [recent changes] [all changes]

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Don't repeat yourself is a key microformats principle. Very often we maintain separate RDF documents with HTML equivalents. Unless these are automatically generated it's very easy for them to get out of synch. This principle suggests that the metadata should be expressed only once whether it's for humans or machines

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