- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:26:02 +0100
- To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- CC: Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>, RDFa TF list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hello All, Michael Hausenblas wrote: >>> I'd suggest that @prefix is maybe not the best name for the attribute -- >>> too focused on the mechanics of CURIE mapping. @vocab maybe? >>> >>> >> I like @vocab +1 from me ;) >> > > +1 > > @vocab makes indeed the most sense to me as well. > I am more convinced now that the term should be @vocab because there are one or two things to consider first before saying lets use @profile as I mentioned in an earlier email, @profile everywhere sounds great to me but, * @profile is obsolete in HTML 5 http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#non-conforming-features, I think this may cause issues if RDFa is ever to become part, or an extension of X/HTML 5. * Authors tend to omit @profile even when they know it should be there, will this make parsing RDFa intensive or impossible? * Is there anything currently actively making use of @profile, If RDFa adopts @profile everywhere will it break existing implementations? Anyway in short its better to create something new, @vocab seems to fit the use case of a microformat like simplicity. > It conveys the message > 'here is a vocabulary from which I intend to use certain terms'. Great summary Michael :) Best Wishes -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/
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