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Re: Comments about microdata

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:17:06 +0300
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Message-Id: <BA861B8E-4793-44B3-9D34-BCE70C16B11E@iki.fi>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Hi,

On May 13, 2009, at 12:54, Henri Sivonen wrote:

> itemprop may take an 'absolute URL'. However, an 'absolute URL' is  
> defined in terms of resolving onto itself and the algorithm for  
> resolving URIfies URLs. Therefore, it seems that an absolute IRI  
> cannot be an absolute URL. Since RDF seems to allow IRIs as  
> properties and the current practice is to allow IRIs in various  
> places, it seems to me that itemprop should take absolute IRIs  
> instead of absolute URLs or the definition of absolute URL should be  
> adjusted.


I wrote the above on public-html. Hixie advised me to bring it to your  
attention specifically, because it seems the definition of 'absolute  
URL' has undesirable implications. That is, a definition under which  
an absolute IRI is also an absolute URL would be desirable.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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