- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:02:18 +0000
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Michael Bolger <michael@michaelbolger.net>, public-rdfa@w3.org, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Hi Sam, > Ah, at last, a technical discussion! He he. But with respect, to have a discussion we need to read each other's comments. :) I wrote that the result of defining the specification in terms of navigating a DOM rather than in terms of a specific set of angle brackets was that: "...there are already a number of parsers available that run within current browsers, even when the host browser is in HTML mode." Yet you replied: > Sounds great in theory. I won't dispute that it sounds great in theory, but the reason I mentioned that we have existing browser implementations is to make the point that it *already* works... ...in practice! Anyway, you then continue: > Unfortunately, Henri has provided a test case that disproves this in practice: > > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-January/018242.html I don't know quite what it is that you think Henry has 'disproved'. We already knew that the there are additional properties relating to namespaces that are available in XHTML mode, but that are not available in HTML mode. Henri gives us a script that when run in HTML mode, doesn't get to use those properties...but why is that a surprise? In short, if you want to write an RDFa parser in JavaScript, that will run in both HTML mode and XHTML mode, you'll need to process the attribute names yourself, and keep track of the prefix mappings. It's not particularly difficult. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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