- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:20:47 -0400
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
At 05:15 PM 4/3/2008 +0000, SWD Issue Tracker wrote: >http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/116 I propose something like: "This specification does not address using RDFa in HTML documents." True "... the mapping of CURIE prefixes will have to be rewritten for HTML documents ..." very likely True. The separate CURIE spec [1] anticipates this; [[ When CURIES are used in an XML-based host language, prefix values MUST be able to be defined using the 'xmlns:' syntax specified in [XMLNAMES]. Such host languages MAY also provide additional prefix mapping definition mechanisms. When CURIES are used in a non-XML host language, the host language MUST provide a mechanism for defining the mapping from the prefix to an IRI. ]] -- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-curie-20080402/#s_syntax We design for our Host Language. At present, our (only) Host Language is XHTML. XHTML has a mechanism that does exactly what we need for creating (prefix, URI) pairs and that mechanism is supported by existing DOM implementations. We believe that RDFa deployment will be better supported by leveraging the existing DOM implementations than by inventing a parallel mechanism for XHTML that duplicates @xmlns for RDFa version 1. We note that any proposal for a parallel mechanism to @xmlns would have to consider proposals for changing behaviours such as the inheritance rules that @xmlns specifies. The Group does not feel that this would be a brief discussion. -Ralph
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