- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:27:33 -0400
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- CC: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Manu Sporny wrote: [snipped much goodness] > - I believe that the RDFa TF and community would really like to work > with Shelley and Philip to create -something- that unifies the RDFa > processing rules across all HTML family languages. There appears to be a perception that HTML4 and HTML5 are separate languages. HTML4 is documented in a way that permits considerable variation in interpretation, specifically a number of variations that will affect the tuples that are produced by interpreting a document via RDFa. I'm confident that Philip can produce a number of such test cases quickly. HTML5 introduces some new features (and removes a few others), but more relevant to the topic at hand captures the consensus interpretation between browser vendors on how to map a stream of bytes into a DOM. That consensus covers DOCTYPES that may differ from the one that HTML5 recommends. Given that some of the RDFa implementations will be in Javascript and based on the DOM that browsers produce, it is important to be consistent with this. Doing so in no way means that the algorithm is HTML5 specific. I said more on the subject here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0155.html [snipped more goodness] - Sam Ruby
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