Re: problem with test 87 and resolution of :foo

Ben,

again, I was following Mark's lead on this:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Jan/0306.html

see his comment on my comments on test #63

I do not really have strong feelings neither pro or con, the main issue 
I am interested in is to have this clearly defined:-)

Ivan

Ben Adida wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> So I'm trying out my parser on test case 87, which tests the following:
> 
> <a rel=":alternate" href="http://example.org/alternate">alternate</a>
> <a rel=":appendix" href="http://example.org/appendix">appendix</a>
> ...
> 
> and other reserved words prefixed with just ":". Now the test says that 
> these should resolve to vocab#alternate, vocab#appendix, etc...
> 
> Except, the top of the XHTML document contains:
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> 
> And since I'm processing xmlns statements, whatever default CURIE 
> namespace I put in gets overridden by the document itself.
> 
> Is it really the right thing to say "parse xmlns declarations *except* 
> for the default namespace one, which is always vocab#?"
> 
> this obviously shouldn't affect rel="license", since we do that with 
> pre-processing special-casing anyways, but I didn't expect that 
> rel=":license"  would also require special-casing.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Ben
> 

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