Re: ISSUE-55: Re-enable @profile in HTML5 (draft 1)

On Sep 29, 2009, at 15:43, Toby Inkster wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:37 +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2009, at 04:47, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>>
>>> My recollection of the TF's discussion around @version is that it  
>>> was
>>> a way to allow RDFa consumers to decide whether they wanted to  
>>> parse a
>>> page or not.
>>
>> It seems that you failed to allow it. A quick search through http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
>>  for the string "version" suggests that http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
>>  doesn't define any processing for @version. Therefore, there's
>> nothing in the RDFa in XHTML spec that allows an RDFa processor to
>> halt processing depending on @version and fail to extract the triples
>> encoded in the document.
>
> But there's also nothing in the syntax document that requires it to
> *start* processing. So an RDFa processor can simply opt to not begin
> processing, depending on whatever factors it wants.


It seems like a spec bug if main() { exit 0; } is a conforming RDFa  
processor.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:46:38 UTC