- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:20:29 -0500
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- CC: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, SWD Working SWD <public-swd-wg@w3.org>, schmeddi@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
I neglected to copy florian on this. Florian, can you plaese confirm this resolves your comment? Shane McCarron wrote: > > The working group resolved to integrate the editorial change as > proposed by Mark. We believe this resolves the issue as submitted. > Thanks for letting us know this was less than clear! > > Shane > > Mark Birbeck wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >>> section 7 says the RDFa default prefix mapping is >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab# and has to be used when the >>> prefix but >>> not the colon is omitted in a CURIE. At the bottom of page 53 is >>> then said >>> that "the mapping to use with the default prefix is the current default >>> mapping" which would be the value of @xmlns in scope and therefore >>> normally >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml (section 4.1). >>> >> >> The top of that section says: >> >> "...in RDFa the 'default prefix' mapping is >> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#." >> >> So perhaps we could make this clearer at the bottom of the section by >> saying: >> >> "the mapping to use with the default prefix is the current default >> prefix mapping" >> >> I.e., adding the word "prefix". >> >> >> >>> According to that, in Test 63 the predicate would be >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlnext rather than >>> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#next (rel=":next"). Additionally, >>> page 29 >>> states that the prefix http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab# should be >>> used >>> only for values in @rel/@rev without prefix and colon. Please >>> correct me if >>> I misunderstood this part. >>> """ >>> >> >> I'm having trouble working out what part of the spec this is referring >> to, because of the page number thing. >> >> But the intention is that the @rel/@rev values are 'tokens' that map >> to a URI. In other words, they are not 'unprefixed' values that then >> acquire a prefix. It just so happens that all of the 'fixed' values >> map to URIs in the XHTML vocab space, but one of the tokens could just >> as easily map to a URI in some other space. >> >> The confusion probably arises because the CURIE syntax *in general* >> does allow for unprefixed values, and explains how they should be >> processed. But it also allows for a list of reserved values to be >> defined, and that is the feature that we are using for @rel/@rev >> values, and therefore why we say "the mapping to use when there is no >> prefix is not defined". >> >> Mark >> >> > -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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