Re: RDFa reliance on namespace declaration

On 15/06/2006 17:46, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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> [Sorry, don't have Ian's original in my mbox??]
> Misha Wolf writes:
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>> 2) replace namespace declaration mechanism with declarations based in 
>> the actual content with semantics specified by RDFa
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> Why does this make them less vulnerable to being lost during
> transformations?

The risk remains but is of a much lesser degree and of a different 
nature. The identity XSLT transformation will leave content alone, but 
could quite easily change namespace prefixes.

The issue is one of coupling across different layers.

Ian