Re: RDFa in HTML issues wiki page created

Sam Ruby wrote:
> ...
> Given this state, and the evident proclivity of users to copy and 
> paste markup into such documents, I would think that it would be a 
> rather good idea for there to be a subset of RDFa (and by subset, I 
> mean things like disallowing the use of two prefixes which differ only 
> in case in the same scope of the same document) which can be processed 
> either as XHTML or HTML and produce the same triples.
>
> Perhaps there can be different rules for XHTML served as 
> application/xhtml+xml, or HTML with a non-XHTML doctype.

I would almost rather try to harmonize the rules between XHTML and HTML 
if that's possible.  For example, by declaring that in HTML and XHTML 
family documents CURIE prefixes are case-insensitive.  This would be a 
significant change from the current recommendation, but I think it is 
unlikely that this change would actually adversely effect the triples 
generated by any existing pages.  If a change like this needs to be 
made, obviously it should be made sooner than later.

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Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 16:22:31 UTC