- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:44 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- CC: RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Manu Sporny wrote: > ... >> Minimally, this issue should be addressed for @rel, because it affects >> even non-RDFa use cases. > > Do you think that this proposal could address your issue with @rel? "My" issue with @rel is that I'd like to see a single interpretation across all HTML languages. For that, the conflict between URI and CURIE syntax would need to be resolved. >> But that does change the rules for XHTML, doesn't it? Or are you saying >> that XHTML != XHTML5 (== HTML5 serialized as XML)? > > Not speaking as a member of the RDFa TF... just kicking around some ideas... > > Yes, it does change the rules slightly, but shouldn't create any > backwards-incompatible changes. That's what I should have said: > > "The @prefix addition would not create any backwards-incompatible > issues, nor would it adversely affect the processing rules. All of the > 'XHTML+RDFa 1.0' documents would continue to work." Yes, it's backwards compatible with existing valid XHTML+RDFa1.0 documents. But (IMHO) XHTML+RDFa1.0 is already incompatible with other languages (see the long exchange over on the TAG mailing list from last weekend). > ... >> On the other hand, it will make the owners of purl.org extremely >> unhappy, unless it doesn't happen frequently. (Did you talk to them?) > > If the anti-indirection crowd is correct, it will happen quite > frequently. If the pro-indirection crowd is correct, it will happen > infrequently. We should plan for the worst. In particular, as if opens up a simple DOS scenario against that server. > I used purl.org as an example - any redirection service would do. I > haven't talked to the purl.org folks yet - don't know who to contact > there. I also need to talk to them about http://purl.org/media# not > resolving, but http://purl.org/media/# resolving. Do you know who I > should talk to? Nope, sorry. Speaking of that: redirection is nice for delegating the authority, but of course is costly (it doubles the number of requests, and potentially the redirect will not be cached). BR, Julian
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