Hi, We discussed: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-ns-prefix-confusion at a Team meeting and we propose: 1. The grammar in section 6. of the M&S spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#grammar should be changed so that all of the RDF attributes (e.g. about, resource, etc.) are qualified with a RDF namespace. 2. Text along the lines of the following should be added to the M&S spec: [[ All elements and attributes in RDF must be namespace qualified ]] Among the reasons for this position: o It is a myth that unqualified attributes inherit the namespace of their enclosing element. See the Namespace Myths, particularly Myth #4: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/08/namespaces/index.html?page=2 o XPath support is becoming more pervasive and by using it, finding qualified attributes is fairly easy o Search engines (such as google) would have trouble following pointers from one RDF document to another and a simple XPath expression to find pointers would help them without having to process all of RDF o Prefixed attributes work today with most of the deployed code Art ---Received on Tuesday, 24 April 2001 20:50:09 EDT
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