Re: RDFa in HTML

Shane McCarron wrote:
> Yeah... I had discussed something similar last week.  And I don't hate
> it.  However, cut-and-paste not withstanding, I would expect these
> prefix declarations to be in the document head most of the time...
> having them inline makes discovery challenging for processors (and is
> one of the many things I dislike about XML Namespaces, but I digress). 
> So even if there were another attribute to use to declare prefix to
> namespace mappings, I would expect it to be on the root element...  not
> a global attribute that could appear on every element.  If you allow it
> anywhere, then you run into the problem of prefix redefinition... ick.

I agree that it's hard, but we have to deal with it: in a world of
mashups, widgets, cut-and-paste HTML, this is a very important requirement.

-Ben