Re: Detecting RDFa Re: RDFa for Firefox

Simone,

you should also quote the reply of Harry (Chair of the GRDDL WG):

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Sep/0008.html

ie, the GRDDL group would still prefer to keep the profile attribute in
its old format... And his arguments are also valid for RDFa, I believe.

ivan

Simone Onofri wrote:
>>> Personally, I believe the profile
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa/
>>> should be used which has been secured by Ralph a while ago...
>> At which level? profile attribute of XHTML 1.0?
>> The issue with the profile attribute is that in a cut and paste
>> scenario, people will forget to modify the "head" and/or will not
>> have write access to the head section of an HTML document.
>>
>> Is there a way to locally trigger the mode, in the HTML itself.
>>
> 
> There a are similar question on GRDDL for use of head/@profile in
> XHTML 2 [1]. So XHTML 2 WG proposed to use [2]:
> 
> [[
> 
> Instead of
> 
>  <head profile="http://www.w3.org/...">
> 
> you now write
> 
>  <head>
>   <link rel="profile" href="http://www.w3.org/..."/>
> 
> since this is more consistent with how metadata is expressed in XHTML2.
> 
> ]]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simone
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/09/05-grddl-wg-minutes.html#item08
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Sep/0002.html
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:04:52 UTC