- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:34:58 +0100
- To: "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: "Ben Adida" <ben@adida.net>, "Hausenblas, Michael" <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>, "Shane McCarron" <shane@aptest.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Ivan, But just to recap what the problem is, in some browsers we simply cannot get all of the data. So we had to make a decision as to whether to insist that all whitespace is preserved, thus condemning browser-based RDFa parsers to be non-conformant, or to define things based on the lowest common denominator--normalised whitespace. We chose the latter approach, and there is no way to axctually know what spaces were there in the first place...unfortunately. So unless someone can find a cunning way to get the original mark-up in browsers that normalise the whitespace, I think we're stuck. (I have to say though, just looking at this quickly I'm not seeing the removal of any whitespace in my tests...I'll look into this a bit more, but can anyone remember which browsers were giving us a problem?) Regards, Mark On 27/09/2007, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > > > Ivan Herman wrote: > > _However_: I wonder whether this is the right thing to do for XML > > Literals. I still think that copying the XML literal verbatim might be > > the best option... > > > > Just one argument that came to my mind: what should happen if > > - there is a <pre> portion in the HTML code > - it is put into the RDF graph as an XML Literal > > I am not sure it is kosher to re-format that portion... On the other > hand, I also do not think that RDFa processors should be asked to > 'parse' the XHTML portion to make this type of decision... > > Ivan > > > > > >>> And, of course, I am anxiously waiting for the > >>> @instanceof finalization, to get that done, too...:-) > >> working on it... > >> > > > > :-) > > > > I. > > > >> -Ben > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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