- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:02:56 -0400
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, SVG Working Group <www-svg@w3.org>, WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Doug Schepers wrote: > Al Gilman wrote (on 10/9/08 9:25 PM): >> aside: I still don't see how in one breath you can say that use with >> RDFa requires all @rel/rev values to be CURIEs and in the next breath >> say you can mix and match RDFa and microformats. > > Well, it's possible that my approach is too loose, though I think it's > sound. I'd like to explain it, so if I'm making a faulty call, someone > can let me know. > > A CURIE can be a prefixed or NON-prefixed value, so it has to allow for bare > strings to be used. > A microformat is just a bare string. > While an RDFa processor may not recognize a microformat value string, it > would not reject it because of its format... it would just not assign > meaning to it. > I don't see where a conflict would necessarily arise unless there were > overlaps in the strings. Doug, your thought process seems to be correct - however, the SVG Tiny LC Draft does not quite reflect this thinking, IMHO. Each time I read the section on RDFa/Microformats I get a different impression. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/metadata.html#MetadataAttributes """ # When used with RDFa, the values for the 'rel' and 'rev' attributes must be a CURIE [RDFA] (i.e., a prefixed string, such as 'cc:license' to indicate a Creative Commons license), while the values may simply be from a set of specific keywords for Microformats. These formats may be used independently, or in combination if the keywords do not clash. """ One impression is that SVG Tiny only allows "prefixed strings". The other is that SVG Tiny supports both "prefix:reference" and "reference" CURIEs? The latter, supporting the complete CURIE specification, is the preferred one as far as the RDFa Task Force is concerned. This would allow both RDFa and Microformats to exist in the same SVG document AND it wouldn't prevent RDFa parsers from recognizing reserved words (like those defined for @rel/@rev in XHTML+RDFa or XHTML2). The more I read the paragraph, the more I'm convinced that it's just a wording issue. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches
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