Re: [Fwd: Using XMLNS in link/@rel]

Steven Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:16:11 +0100, Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Steven Pemberton wrote:
>>> ...
>>> As I said, a CURIE is an appropriate value for a rel in HTML4. In 
>>> HTML4 the rel attribute takes CDATA, and is defined as a 
>>> space-separated list of link types, with no other definition of what 
>>> a link type is. So a ...
>>
>> I'm not sure how this helps. As a consumer of a @rel attribute, I need 
>> to know whether I need to process it as CURIE before comparing it with 
>> known link relation names.
> 
> I was replying to a comment that said there were different syntaxes in 
> HTML4 and XHTML+RDFa for @rel. What I was saying is that the syntax 
> isn't new: it is allowed by HTML4 already. The RDFa spec just adds how 
> to interpret it.

Doesn't compute.

If recipients need to change, then you have introduced a new 
notation/syntax/whateveryouwannacallit.

BR, Julian

Received on Monday, 2 March 2009 14:38:05 UTC