- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:35:08 -0400
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Shane McCarron wrote: > You could ask on the call today, but my recollection is that this was > done because @property had no legacy to support. Personally I think > this was a mistake - that the XHTML 2 paradigm that any non-prefixed > CURIE in any attribute is assumed to be from the XHTML vocabulary, but I > was out voted. So now the only place we have simple values are in @rel > and @rev. Yes, that was my recollection as well - @property had no legacy to support, thus can't have non-prefixed values in it. However, if we get this automatic prefixing mechanism[1] into RDFa, both your and Steven's issues would be addressed, correct? It would allow you to do this: <div prefix="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#" about=""> <span property="description">...</span> </div> -- manu [1]http://rdfa.info/wiki/RDFa_Vocabularies -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches
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