Re: RDFa and Web Directions North 2009

On 18/2/09 16:07, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 16:08, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>
>>>>> It doesn't represent XML attribute spelled "xmlns:foo" in the XML
>>>>> source
>>>>> code as attributes in the API. Thus, if you write a XOM-based
>>>>> consumer for
>>>>> RDFa-in-XML as currently defined, you can't just swap the parser to
>>>>> an HTML5
>>>>> parser and have it work.
>>>>
>>>> It appears to me that this could be considered to be either a bug in
>>>> the
>>>> HTML5 parser, or in XOM.
>>>
>>> Absent RDFa, it clearly isn't a bug in either. RDFa is what adds a
>>> problem.
>>
>> Please see my other email about how this breaks currently working HTML
>> documents.
>
> Can you show me a conforming HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01 or 5 (as drafted
> today) file (or even XHTML 1.0 Appendix C file!) that can't be usefully
> mapped to existing XML APIs the way the HTML 5 spec says?

Just a brief point: how nice to see a discussion based around concrete 
test cases.

That's all :)

Dan