Re: Resolving remaining issues in the issue tracker

I am fully with Gregg on that one...

Ivan

On Jan 10, 2013, at 04:29 , Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net> wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/07/2013 03:01 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> So I believe XHTML+RDFa 1.1 is all right as it is, and the 
>>> formulation added by Gregg to HTML5+RDFa is the right one.
>> 
>> I disagree. We have a resolution that disagrees with the statement
>> above. :)
>> 
>> We got rid of these special rules because it is unnecessary in many of
>> the use cases and is confusing to authors. We got rid of them because we
>> wanted to reduce the number of magic subjects in RDFa 1.1. If we want to
>> change this at this point, we can do that per the process. We'll have to
>> re-open the issue because we closed it with a resolution:
>> 
>> RESOLVED: Modify HTML+RDFa and XHTML+RDFa to modify processing
>> steps #5 and #6 from assuming an empty @about value to assuming
>> that new subject is set to the parent object.
> 
> Yes, what this did was change the old behavior which had an implicit @about="" on <head> and <body>, which is what would lead to the problem. The new text specifically says to set the new subject from the parent object. Without this text, if you had typeof="schema:WebPage", in step 5, it would allocate a new BNode, and you'd get the following:
> 
> [ a schema:WebPage ] .
> 
> where what is desired is
> 
> <> a schema:WebPage .
> 
> That's why a special rule is necessary here in step 5 and in step 6.
> 
> [[[
> 	• In section 7.5, processing step 5, if no IRI is provided by a resource attribute (e.g., @about, @href, @resource, or @src), then first check to see if the element is the head or body element. If it is, then act as if the new subject is set to the parent object.
> ]]]
> 
> This wording is entirely consistent with our resolution, and without it, would lead to the undesirable effect of using a BNode. In RDFa 1.0, you (mostly) got this effect, because there was an implicit @about="", which typically is the same as parent object, but could obviously be different.
> 
> I think the text should go back in.
> 
> Gregg
> 
>> -- manu
>> 
>> PS: I removed Gregg's text in the latest HTML+RDFa 1.1 spec because it
>> was not aligned with the resolution that we had made before. I also
>> think that the text in XHTML+RDFa 1.1 is wrong and we need an errata on
>> it, unless we're going to re-open this issue and discuss it again.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny)
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> blog: The Problem with RDF and Nuclear Power
>> http://manu.sporny.org/2012/nuclear-rdf/
>> 
> 
> 


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