Re: [RDFa Syntax] @resource and @href

Michael,

with all due respect: I do not think we should go there.

There are huge discussions on what information and non-information
resources are, whether they are the right names, etc, etc; let us not go
there. Also: from an RDF perspective, a URI is a URI, regardless of what
they refer to (ie, informational or non-informational resource), which
makes it even messier. Finally: no RDFa parser could check this
requirement...

Yes, I was in favour and I am in favour of using @resource in general,
but we have agreed to allow for @href everywhere and there is no need to
reopen that discussion. Having both actually helps the RDFa author to
fine tune the generated triples; that is as far as we should go in my
view...

My two pence...

Ivan

Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
> 
> I had a quick look at the RDFa Syntax [1] document
> and did not actually find any usage of @resource.
> (BTW, Shane, I did not find any @resource declarations in 
> the DTDs [2] and [3] - did I miss something?)
> 
> Further, Ivan recently stated in [4]:
> 
>  'I was always in favour of @resource, and @href only
>   in the dedicated place, ie, in <a>:-)'
> 
> So, to assist people in using @resource and @href 'correctly',
> I'd like to propose the following addition to the RDFa Syntax.
> 
> <PROPOSAL>
> 
> 'As per TAG finding httpRange-14 [5] the value of @href
>  MUST be an information resource, and the value of @resource
>  MAY be an information resource. RDFa authors SHALL use a URI
>  that identifies a non-information resources for the value
>  of @resource.'
> 
> </END_OF_PROPOSAL>
> 
> As an aside: The two RDFa test cases TC 31 [6] and 
> TC 32 [7] already demonstrate this 'good practice':
> 
> TC 31
> =====
> 
>  <p about="#wtw">
>   The book <b>Weaving the Web</b> (hardcover) has the ISBN
>   <span rel="dc:identifier" 
>         resource="urn:ISBN:0752820907">0752820907</span>.
>  </p>
> 
> TC 32
> =====
> 
>  <p about="#wtw">
>   The book <b>Weaving the Web</b> (hardcover) has the ISBN
>   <a rel="dc:identifier"
>      resource="urn:ISBN:0752820907" 
>  
> href="http://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Web-Tim-Berners-Lee/dp/0752820907">0
> 752820907</a>.
>  </p>
> 
> Cheers,
>  Michael
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2007/ED-rdfa-syntax-20070812/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd
> [3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-hypertext-1.mod
> [4]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2007Aug/0121.
> html
> [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#httpRange-14
> [6]
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/testsuite/xhtml1-testcases/Test0031
> [7]
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/testsuite/xhtml1-testcases/Test0032
> 
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