Re: Comments on RDFa in XHTML Syntax draft

Hi Laurens et al.

Laurens Holst schrieb:
> First of all, I think the @cite attribute on blockquote and q

... and ins and del ...

> elements 
> should have the same status as @href (be considered as @resource), so 
> that RDFa can pick up on existing cite attribute annotations in 
> documents, and to avoid authors having to write the citation URI twice, 
> one for RDFa and one for HTML. See the example in section 6.3.2.1.

An (IMHO) important difference between @href and @cite (or @longdesc) 
references is that with @cite there's an implicit RDF predicate ("is 
quoted from") (@longdesc: "has a long description at"), while with @href 
there must be an explicit RDF predicate specified.

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Johannes Koch
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