- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:51:46 -0500
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Robert Burns wrote: > We already encourage extensions in the Web-scale case with the > @class attribute and the @class attribute registry. In my view, > namespaces are a more elegant extension mechanism than @class > attributes. If we had wide-spread namesapce support, we would > probably not need the microsyntax approaches that have sprung up > (consider the hcard versus the XML/RDF vcard schema). Especially > with the extension of CSS into most areas of browser presentation > (like the bidi property and display: table, etc), it is more and > more possible to express private semantics and present them in > publicly consumable ways. Add to that behavioral schema reuse such > as XLink or Xinclude and a XML private schema creator could piece > together most of HTML out of thin air (though luckily they don't > have to). I meant to include links for the hcard v vcard in xml/rdf): XML/RDF: <http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf> hcard: <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard>
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