Martin,
I must admit I did not follow all the intricacies of the relative URI->full URI conversion, I usually rely on library functions (I know, I am lazy). But if what you say below is true, isn't that a bug in the microdata spec?
Ivan
On Oct 29, 2011, at 11:26 , Martin Hepp wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> We had a longer discussion on URI comparison in RDF settings earlier this year. Note that when it comes to writing Microdata parsers, which will be a common thing for LOD architectures, there is a new spec to observe:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#resolve-a-url
>
> AFAIK, itemtype URIs are never resolved this way, but itemprop and href URIs will.
>
> This may result to different behaviors of queries in RDF settings if the same markup is used in Microdata vs. RDFa.
>
> Best
>
> Martin Hepp
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