XHTML 2: metaAttributes examples

To whom it may concern:

On http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-metaAttributes.html there are a few 
examples that were confusing to me.


23.1. Metadata Attribute Collection
A few examples in this section use the "dc:created" property. For example:

<meta about="http://www.example.com/" 
property="dc:created">2004-03-20</meta>

It seems implied that this is a valid property of the Dublic Core 
namespace, given the reference later to this namespace:

<html ....  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

However, "created" is not defined in version 1.1 of the Dublin Core (as 
far as I can tell). It is mentioned at 
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ though.

A casual reader may be inclined to incorrectly assume he/she can use the 
dc:created property, while in fact it is undefined. I suggest to simply 
change the example.



23.3. Metadata as Content
The example in this section lists (among other lines):
       <meta property="dc:date">March 23, 2004</meta>

Though the dc:date spec does not formally specify the formatting of the 
content, it does recommend to follow the style as set forth in 
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

Again, a casual reader may be inclined to think that this is the 
recommended way of specifying dates. I recommend to change it to 2004-03-23.


Kind regards,
Freek Dijkstra

Received on Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:56:15 UTC