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Re: RDFa reliance on namespace declaration

From: Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:28:51 +0100
Message-ID: <44965233.1010401@internetalchemy.org>
To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
CC: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org

On 18/06/2006 12:59, Mark Birbeck wrote:
> My conclusion is that the awkwardness of using XSLT 1.0 to process
> XHMTL documents that contain QNames does not justify dropping the use
> of QNames as a scoping mechanism, especially since QNames are used so
> widely in XML languages.

My conclusions are the exact opposite: the lack of support for qnames in 
  the vast majority of XML processing tools DOES justify looking for an 
alternative. We shouldn't repeat past mistakes.

As I pointed out in my response to Karl, a more robust solution would 
simply to use the full URIs wherever you have currently specified qnames 
or CURIEs.

Ian
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