comment: XML Core's Review of RDF/A Primer 1.0

John Cowan of the XML Core WG provided the following
review of RDF/A Primer 1.0 which I hereby forward
(with permission).

Paul Grosso
for the XML Core WG

-----Original Message-----
From: public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: Thursday, 2006 March 23 14:49
To: Norman Walsh
Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: Review of RDF/A Primer 1.0?


Norman Walsh scripsit:
> At the XML CG call last week, I took an action to solicit XML Core WG
> review of RDF/A Primer 1.0[1] with particular attention to Section
> 4.4[2].

I've read it, and don't see any issues for us around CURIES.  A CURIE
looks like a QName, but with fewer restrictions, and can be used
(wrapped in square brackets) in some contexts where a URI is allowed;
other
contexts allow only CURIES with no brackets.  Unlike QNames, they don't
inherently require that the prefix be declared in an xmlns:foo attribute
(though it seems that RDF/A in particular *does* require this).

The only issue I see is the type attribute, which specifies the XSD
type of a stretch of XML content; it's usually applied to an XHTML span
element.  I'd recommend that xsi:type, which has the same semantics,
be used instead.

-- 
Here lies the Christian,                        John Cowan
        judge, and poet Peter,                  http://www.ap.org
Who broke the laws of God
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        and man and metre.                      cowan@ccil.org

Received on Monday, 3 April 2006 16:36:46 UTC