Re: ISSUE-120: Ambiguous Situation with nested @rel where inner @rel is neither CURIE nor link type

Ivan Herman wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> to be ruthlessly precise, the situation is not ambiguous; as you say, 
> the spec leads to
>
> <> dc:creator <ben.jpg>.
>
> (this is also what my implementation does:-)
I disagree.  I think the spec is ambiguous.  If we WANT the spec to lead 
to that, then I think it would be relatively easy to say something like 
"If there are no value values for a given attribute, the processor 
should act as if the attribute was not specified at all."  However, I do 
not believe that was Mark's intent.  His intent was to be able to STOP 
the cascade by putting in a rel="".  If we add a restriction like the 
one above, then such a thing would not work.  We could, of course, add a 
further qualification when an empty attribute value is encountered.  We 
already do that for @about, so we could extend it.

I agree with you that making any changes at this late date is a really 
bad idea.  But I think that the current spec is accidentally ambiguous.


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Received on Friday, 9 May 2008 12:32:49 UTC