More on HTML5 and XHTML5 integration

Hi,

I have just updated

http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values

with its-rules link relation type we use for HTML5. Without such
addition we couldn't claim pages with its-rules as valid.

Also we should settle on syntax used for local categories for XHTML.
With ITS 1.0 situation was easy, we used attributes from ITS namespace,
like its:term.

But for ITS 2.0 we define its-* for HTML5, ie. no namespace, just
prefix. For XHTML5 we can decide whether to use its-* or its:*. I think
that its-* makes more sense as XHTML5 content can be often parsed by
HTML parser and not XML parser (for example when served with wrong media
type). Using its-* will have benefit of producing consistent parsing
result from both HTML5 and XHTML5 sources.

Of course its:* would be solution more aligned with XML "philosophy",
also it would be backward compatible with ITS 1.0. It would be
interesting to hear opinion of implementers.

I think that spec should encourage only one of these two possibilities
for XHTML5 or at least provide some guidance about which syntax to use when.

    Jirka



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