[Bug 7670] Use of prefixes is too complicated for a Web technology

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7670


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-09-18 17:07:50 ---
> Prefix-based lookup is similar in complexity to
> the classname / element name based lookup used in CSS.

CSS selector indirection is already pretty confusing to a lot of authors, but
it has three advantages that don't apply to RDFa: errors don't cause bad data
to be generated, selectors can be written by trial and error without the use of
tools beyond a browser, and it's not a rebindable prefix mechanism.

> Sure.  RDF/XML

Not in use in any sort of wide scale, and equally bad.

> N3

Not in use in any sort of measurable scale.

> Office Open XML

Not hand-authored.

> URIs (IRIs etc)

Doesn't use a rebindable prefix mechanism.

> RSS

Not in use in a way that uses a rebindable prefix mechanism.

> ATOM

Not in use in a way that uses a rebindable prefix mechanism.

> Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl.

Doesn't use rebindable prefixes that are combined with a second string to form
a third string whose value matters in a way that it could be constructed in any
arbitrary other ways.

> I think the prefixing that RDFa relies upon is an essential part of
> the technology

Then I think we should not have the technology.

> and that the users of RDFa seem to have no trouble grokking
> that part of it

I think that the HTMLWG should be designing technologies for orders of
magnitude more usage than RDFa current has.


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