Re: Re http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/510

This does seem like the same bug to me. Thank you, Aryeh. Tim, can check whether this is the same issue you are concerned with? If not, would you like me to enter it in bugzilla for you? In any case, this is certainly an issue we will address during Last Call.

Regards,
Maciej

On May 25, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:

> Is this the same as bug 12713?
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> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12713
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> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
>> Looking back through the the archive I see sent this to the TAG list instead
>> of the
>>  the HTML working group list. My apologies.
>> I had wondered why nothing else had happened in response.
>> This is a serious bug and one which apparently remains
>> in http://dev.w3.org/html5/md-LC/
>> Tim
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
>> Date: 2011-04-19 19:14:53 GMT+02:00
>> To: TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/510
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>> Reading http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#examples
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>> Taking an action from the TAG meeting:
>> re: action http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/510
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>> This note passes on concern the TAG had about the appalling
>> URIs generated in the procedures described in the HTML5 spec at
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#examples
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>> In the example, the HCARD data is to be parsed to produce RDF data with a
>> predicate whose URI is
>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/microdata#http://microformats.org/profile/hcard%23:adr
>> That is an appalling URI, for a number of reasons.
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>> 1. It is horribly long
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>> 2. It is constructed including two other URIS, so that there is a
>> combination of two authorities, so it will only be supported if the w3.org
>> and mictorformats.org sites coordinate the generation of new microformats.
>>   It makes W3C responsible for supporting things added in microformats.org
>> which, while W3c may need to do this special cases should not be built into
>> the semantics of the HTML language.
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>> 3. Because it has a hash in he middle instead of at the end, typical
>> serializers won't be able to use namespace prefix on output, so any files
>> which use these URLs  will by ugly, unreadable, and large.
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>> There may be other serious flaws with the RDF mapping described there, but
>> that one jumps out.
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>> Tim
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