Re: Some RDFa 1.1 Core edge cases that we need to clarify

On Oct 26, 2010, at 23:08 , Toby Inkster wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:24:07 +0100
> Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't think we should go any further than the canonicalisation
>> algorithm.
> 
> FWIW, RDFa 1.0 says to use XML exclusive c14n. However, test case 0101
> in the RDFa 1.0 test suite calls for xml:lang attributes to be copied
> into the child elements of literal - that's a feature of xml c14n, but
> as I understand it, xml ec14n explicitly says not to do this.
> 
> Personally I'd be happiest to go with using plain old ec14n. It's a
> stable specification. XMLLiterals are a rare enough use case that
> anyone doing particularly delicate things with them should be expected
> to handle making the literal as self-contained as possible themselves
> rather than relying on the parser to do so.
> 

+1

Ivan


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