Re: Procedural question on [Fwd: Re: Fine-tuning CURIEs]

O.k. I understand. Sorry for stirring up the mud...

Ivan

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> As Shane says, this has been discussed many times. The approach we're
> taking is that we'll see how it pans out, but we'll plan for as many
> possibilities as possible.
> 
> The CURIEs draft is most definitely pressing ahead. Our work on
> metadata in XHTML is not confined to RDFa, although it is obviously
> the jewel in the crown; we've also created the role attribute and a
> module for access key, and these also need CURIEs. That's why we
> defined a separate spec.
> 
> However, as things stand, the various specifications that require
> CURIEs have the prose from the CURIEs draft pasted in. If the CURIEs
> spec becomes formalised before any of the specs that would benefit
> from it, then they can refer by reference. If any of those specs beat
> CURIEs to the finish line, then they can stick with the pasted in
> prose.
> 
> I think that's a pretty good approach myself. The prose that I put in
> he syntax document about CURIEs working in any language is going to
> move across to the CURIEs draft proper, when it's all been finalised.
> However, what happened here is that some things were missing in the
> 'RDFa in XHTML' version of CURIEs, so I had to go back to first
> principles a little to work out what was missing.
> 
> I'm pleased to hear that your primary goal coincides with mine, by the way. ;)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 11/09/2007, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>> Shane,
>>
>> thanks. It was indeed not clear.
>>
>> Shane McCarron wrote:
>>> The XHTML Working Group is absolutely producing a separate document for
>>> CURIEs.  The reason we have incorporated the basic rules that apply to
>>> XHTML+RDFa into the syntax document is so there is no dependency on this
>>> separate document.  When the separate REC is ready, we can editorially
>>> update the syntax document.
>>>
>> Hm. My prediction is that the RDFa syntax document will become a REC
>> _before_ the CURIE document will become a REC. In which case you cannot
>> update the syntax document any more (unless issuing a new release...)
>>
>> I know, I am very 'selfish' here, and my primary goal is to have the
>> current RDFa work done. Anything that smells a delay makes me feel itchy:-)
>>
>> Ivan
> 

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