Re: Further changes to URI and CURIE processing description

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
>> Hm. I have not thought of @name at all! But my recollection was that we
>> would leave @name out of the RDFa picture altogether, so I am not sure
>> what you refer to when you say "@name we;ll have to do what I've done
>> with @rel/@rev".
> 
> Well, the reason we devised @property was because we couldn't
> generalise @name in the same way that we did with @rel and @rev. So
> that gives us two issues. The first is whether this should generate a
> triple or not:
> 
>   <meta name="description" content="My site" />
> 
> I think it would be very odd for it not to, and don't recall us ever
> saying that @name should be ignored. In fact I think the view was
> usually that @name is the same as @property, which raises the second
> issue...why bother? In other words, should this generate a triple:
> 
>   <meta name="dc:title" content="My site" />
>

Well... I do not remember the exact reasons, but I am sure at some point 
it was decided to completely ignore @name, I just do not remember why. I 
know it was decided because in the first implementation I had it was one 
of my 'preprocessing' steps, and I had to comment it out! (It is still 
there, easy to revive:-)

Ivan

> My view is that this should *not* generate a triple, but the first
> example should. My rationale is that there is no point in polluting
> the legacy space with CURIEs, or polluting the new attribute @property
> with legacy values, if we don't have to. We *do* have to with @rel and
> @rev, but let's keep it at that.
> 
> 
>> I have no problem defining @property as CURIE and leave it at that. I
>> guess my only issue is consistency: if this is what we do than the list
>> of values in section 9.2.5 of the current syntax document is irrelevant
>> and should be removed (as, as I said in my comment, most of section 9
>> should be removed in my view...:-)
> 
> Yes, I agree, and on section 9, too, which I have commented on in the
> other thread.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 

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