Re: ISSUE-117 (about-on-HTML): Consider disallowing @about on <html> [RDFa 1.1 in HTML5]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:39:24 +0100
Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> What this rule says, in terms of elements, is that <html> (or any top
> element) _has_ this magic behaviour, ie, an @about="" is introduced
> on that level, conceptually (unless there is an explicit @about, that
> is). So what does <head> and <body> magic brings us?

As I said, I believe it is entirely so that people can do this:

	<body typeof="foaf:Document">

without generating a new blank node, and without having to go through
the back-breaking effort of adding about="".

It's a fairly narrow use case.

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Toby A Inkster
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