Re: RDFa and Web Directions North 2009

On Feb 18, 2009, at 15:21, Julian Reschke wrote:

> I still do not understand the nature of the problem.
>
> If you are in a namespace-aware environment (such as XOM, or  
> something using the XPath data model, such as XSLT), then use the  
> supplied XML namespace information.


While HTML5 parsing as defined today supplies namespace information  
for each element and attribute name, it doesn't supply xmlns:foo-based  
namespace mapping context for resolving prefixes in attribute content  
on the application layer.

Changing HTML5 parsing to supply this context would mean a parsing- 
level change for the benefit of RDFa. None of the features drafted  
HTML 5 so far need this.

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