- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:31:32 -0500
- To: Eduard Pascual <herenvardo@gmail.com>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
I have forwarded this to the RDFa developer mailing list, Eduard... just so that it's noted in a record somewhere public. Eduard Pascual wrote: > Just some opinions: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: >> Speaking as an RDFa Task Force member - we're currently looking at an >> alternative prefix binding mechanism, so that this: >> >> xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" >> >> could also be declared like this in non-XML family languages: >> >> prefix="foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" >> > Could <meta name="prefix" content="foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"> > do the job? I think adding a new @name value for meta would involve > less work than adding an entire new attribute. This was discussed as a possibility at one point, I don't quite remember what the argument was against it. Perhaps somebody else on the list can remember? > In either case, may I suggest an alternative syntax, like > "foaf:http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"? That's a quite subjective opinion, > but the "=" inside attribute values seem too wrong to me, and they > quite ruin the readability. We had been contemplating separators other than '=', ':' did come up in the conversation as a possibility. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Website Launch http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch
Received on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:32:13 UTC