Re: References to CSS rules in RDFa syntax document

Ouch, ouch, ouch! That hurts...

If your findings are confirmed than indeed we have much less choice than
before. I hate that!:-)

Ivan

P.S. I never liked programming in javascript:-(

Manu Sporny wrote:
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> In other words, the following XHTML (Test Case #11):
>>>
>>> <div about="">
>>>    Author: <span property="dc:creator">Albert Einstein</span>
>>>    <h2 property="dc:title">
>>>         E = mc<sup>2</sup>: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time
>>>    </h2>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> Should produce the following triples:
>>>
>>> @prefix _5:
>>> <http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/testsuite/xhtml1-testcases/0011.>.
>>> @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.
>>>
>>> _5:xhtml dc:creator "Albert Einstein";
>>>   dc:title """E = mc<sup>2</sup>: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time"""
>>>           ^^<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral>.
>>>
>>>> So I believe we should either refer to these two ideas, or even import
>>>> the prose as is, if we have to.
>> Wait, that is a different issue. It is still undecided whether the
>> canonicalization should apply on XML Literals. Mark's proposal is to use
>> XPath for the definition of canonicalization, not (yet) on what exactly
>> it applies to!
> 
> If only we had a choice, Ivan :)
> 
> I took some time last night to do some research on how XMLLiterals could
> be implemented in Javascript. Here are the results for RDFa Test Case #11:
> 
> http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/tests/xmlliteral.html
> 
> If you use Firefox's DOM and Javascript implementation to get the
> contents of the H2 element, here are the results on the node:
> 
> outerHTML: 'undefined'
> innerHTML:
> '\n        E = mc<sup>2</sup>: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time\n
>  ' (there are extra spaces after the last \n)
> innerText: 'undefined'
> 
> If you use Internet Explorer 7's DOM and Javascript implementation to
> get the contents of the "E = mc^2: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time",
> here are the results on the node:
> 
> outerHTML: '\r\n<H2 id=dc-title property="dc:title">E = mc<SUP>2</SUP>:
> The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time </H2>'
> innerHTML: 'E = mc<SUP>2</SUP>: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time '
> innerText: 'E = mc2: The Most Urgent Problem of Our Time '
> 
> In short - Firefox's implementation allows you to retrieve the original
> whitespace and line breaks using Javascript. IE7 does not.
> 
> IE7 normalizes all of the whitespace before inserting it into the DOM,
> which means that Javascript does not have access to the original text in
> the XHTML file.
> 
> This means that the same canonacalization rules should be used for
> regular strings and XMLLiterals for RDFa-in-XHTML.
> 
> Somebody please correct me if they have a different understanding of the
> IE7 DOM.
> 
> -- manu
> 

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