Re: PROPOSAL: Extending @rel/@rev reserved value set

Ben Adida wrote:
> Shane McCarron wrote:
>   
>> As per today's discussion, I would like to propose that we 1) merge the
>> reserved values from @property in [1] into the set of reserved values
>> for @rel / @rev in [2].
>>     
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, that would imply adding to the list of
> currently reserved words for @rel/@rev. That seems to be in conflict
> with our approach of not extending the host language?
Hmm - fair point.  The list in [1] is not the same as the list in [2] 
right now.  The XHTML 2 Working Group elected to extend the list to 
reflect real world usage (even in the absence of an @profile value).  
That extension work was done in the context of XHTML 2, however.  It is 
unlikely we really considered whether it made sense to push those 
extensions back to XHTML 1.x.  Given that XHTML does not impose any 
semantics on these values, I think we are safe to define the collection 
that we like the best.  I suppose we could defer to the XHTML 2 Working 
Group on this issue.

[1]  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstraction.html#dt_LinkTypes
[2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2007/ED-rdfa-syntax-20070927/#sec_9.2.6.

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Received on Thursday, 11 October 2007 17:23:17 UTC