- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:20:49 -0000
- To: "'Ben Adida'" <ben@mit.edu>
- Cc: "'public-rdf-in-xhtml task force'" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Ben, > The question is whether the following XHTML should yield a clickable > link: > > ======== > <blockquote> > some interesting quotation > written by <link rel="dc:creator" > href="http://foobar.com">Bob</link>. > </blockquote> > ======== > > In our telecon discussions, we wondered whether this was > solely an issue for the XHTML WG to discuss. Certainly, > Steven and Mark should be the ones to chime in on this one. > That said, there are consequences to the expressive power of > RDF/A. Specifically, without this feature, then we can't > reduce data duplication on a clickable/ semantic link that > pertains to a bnode (as above). >From an XHTML point of view this is definitely clickable, for consistency; since @href is allowed everywhere, and it always makes the element that it is on into a navigable link, then we must allow it on <link> as on anything else. I think the bit that is new from your examples, is that without the presence of text inside the <link>, the link was no easily available to the user, so the issue of its 'navigability' didn't really get raised. Anyway, my vote is for navigable. Regards, Mark Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/
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