- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:48:21 -0500
- To: martin@weborganics.co.uk
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Martin, I appreciate what you are trying to accomplish here, but I sincerely feel that data- is the wrong way to go about it. If using a colon in an attribute name is a bad idea, there are lots of proposals on the table with widespread support in the RDFa community for solving this. @prefix, @token, @vocab - all of these would solve the problem AND be validatable in an XML DTD-based validation scheme should we want to update XHTML 1.1 + RDFa. data- or whatever cannot be. Martin McEvoy wrote: > Hello Sam thank you for your reply..... > > Sam Ruby wrote: >> Instead of being a bonus, I believe that it was Ian's intent to >> specifically disallow such a use. > Its an unnecessary restriction I think, do you know of a specific > reason why such use is disallowed? >> >> My suggestion is to treat the current spec as a draft, and therefore >> subject to change. If data-* is the right approach, a change will be >> needed to the draft. If changes are needed, I'd suggest figuring out >> what the right change is, rather than being constrained by the >> current text. > How do I propose a change? post the Issue to the HTML-WG or the WHATWG > or both? > > Thanks > -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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