- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:43:29 +0100
- To: Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com>
- Cc: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On 26 Aug 2009, at 20:17, Damian Steer wrote: >> One of the more iconic RDFa-enabled pages on the Web is this one: >> http://www.myspace.com/parishilton >> >> As has been pointed out before, it's slightly broken, because the >> xsd: namespace is used in @datatype, but undeclared in the document. >> >> Now I wonder what a conformant RDFa parser should do when >> confronted with an undeclared namespace in @datatype? Ignore the >> triple? Ignore the @datatype? Assume the empty string as prefix >> URI? Halt and catch fire? > > fwiw, my vote is for ignoring the triple. Producing a wonky literal > is simply annoying. Halting doesn't seem to be in the spirit of RDFa. > > However in practice I'd assume the xml schema namespace and repair it. I tend to agree with your vote and practice advice, but I would be quite interested in knowing what the spec actually prescribes :-) (Of course I could just read the spec, but I imagine that some kind soul on this list who is already familiar with the spec can find out the answer much faster than me ...) Richard
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