reviewer for Last Call of XHTML Role attribute module?

The XHTML2 working group is seeking a review from UWA and your 
comments on the spec are welcomed.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-role-20071004/

Here is an informative example taken from the spec:

   <ul role="navigation wai:sitemap">
     <li href="downloads">Downloads</li>
     <li href="docs">Documentation</li>
     <li href="news">News</li>
   </ul>

In essence, the role attribute takes a space separated list of XML 
name space qualified names. A small set of names are predefined in 
the spec, e.g. banner, main, navigation. The WAI-ARIA roles are 
strong candidates for common use, see:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-aria-role-20070601/

The XHTML Roles spec makes use of an associated spec defining 
"CURIES" which are closely related to qnames, see:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-curie-20070307/

which seeks to enable abbreviated forms of URIs for use in embedding 
metadata into XHTML and other document formats. The syntax is the 
same as for QNames, but allieviates the restriction on QNames to 
refer to a valid XML element name.

Gregory Rosmaita provides an interesting review of the XHTML Role 
spec at:

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-wai-pf/2007OctDec/0028.html

The SVG working group are interested in using role within SVG and 
that is raising the question as to whether the attribute can be 
imported into the SVG namespace or must be left in the XHTML 
namespace.

I will add the XHTML Role LCWD to the agenda of the next UWA 
telecon, but please feel free to post comments to the UWA mailing 
lists

  Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Saturday, 13 October 2007 10:02:07 UTC