Re: checking in on ISSUE-102

Hi Ben,

Although we also have a "type" attribute in XForms, it is a very generic 
name, and probably should have been called datatype in hindsight.  More 
importantly, it is not quite the centrally focused concept that "instance" 
is for XForms.
Also, within RDFa, the name seems to better reflect the type association 
being performed, rather than "instantiation" of a schema.

Therefore, it looks like a good improvement to me. Thanks for making the 
change.

John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Staff Member
Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher
Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com 

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From:
Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
To:
John Boyer/CanWest/IBM@IBMCA
Cc:
RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Date:
06/15/2008 10:52 PM
Subject:
checking in on ISSUE-102




John,

As you probably saw, we resolved ISSUE-102 a few weeks ago by changing 
@instanceof to @typeof (@instanceof was already unpopular with a few 
members of the task force.)

I wanted to make sure we had your official response on that issue, since 
you raised it: are you okay with our resolution? If you're not 100% okay 
with it, can you live with it?

Thanks!

-Ben