Mark Birbeck wrote: > > Hi Ivan, > >> The only question I have is: what are the allowed values of @datatype? >> We had a mini-discussion with Mark on whether we would use something >> like @datatype="plain" when one wants plain literal even in case there >> is markup. > > I'm not so sure it's as important now, and I'm also not convinced it > will be used. Also the potential for misunderstanding seems great! I'm > sure people will say to us, what are you doing indicating that > something has no datatype by using an invented datatype? :) There's > also the issue of what namespace is this value in...and so on. > > Having said that, I suppose these objections could be addressed by > using datatype="" to indicate 'no type' which is more correct than 'a > type of plain literal' (which is not a type). > > Ok, if we do leave this in, my vote would be to indicate plain > literals with an empty value of datatype. This essentially says 'I'm > overriding any default value for @datatype that the RDFa processor > might deduce for itself, and the override is that this element has > *no* datatype'. > I agree with that. I. > Any thoughts on that? > > Regards, > > Mark > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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