Re: @rel syntax in RDFa (relevant to ISSUE-60 discussion), was: Using XMLNS in link/@rel

Rob Sayre wrote:
> On 3/1/09 7:11 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
>>
>> <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" 
>> xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" 
>> href="http://www.whitehouse.gov"> 
> 
> It occurs to me that HTML5 already addresses this sort of extension:
> 
> <a rel="cc:attributionURL"
>      data-rdfa-property="cc:attributionName"
>      data-ns-cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
>      href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#custom-data-attribute

...which says...:

"Custom data attributes  are intended to store custom data private to 
the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate 
attributes or elements.

These attributes are not intended for use by software that is 
independent of the site that uses the attributes."

BR, Julian