Re: Request to publish HTML+RDFa (draft 3) as FPWD

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> The problem is that the way HTML parsing works, markup like:
>
> <div xmlns:foo="http://namespace.example.org">
>
> Does not parse the xmlns:foo attribute into something that "declare
> [an] XML Namespace mapping". Specifically, it does not create an
> attribute in the "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" namespace. Or an
> attribute with a "xmlns" prefix and "foo" localName. It creates an
> attribute in the null namespace, with a localName that is "xmlns:foo".
>
> So *an* attribute shows up in the DOM. Just not an attribute that
> declares a XML Namespace.
>
> Now, we can argue if that is how HTML5 should define parsing. But that
> is how it currently defines it. And as far as I can see the HTML+RDFa
> spec does not seem to change that.
>   

Andy that's fine.  We don't care.  RDFa doesn't use namespaces.  RDFa 
uses vocabularies and prefix mappings.  As long as an implementation can 
discover the prefix mappings and transl;ate vocabulary item references 
into those mappings, we are good.  As far as I can tell, that means we 
are good everywhere.

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Received on Saturday, 19 September 2009 05:53:06 UTC