Re: [Fwd: Using XMLNS in link/@rel]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:09:46 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> Ben Adida wrote:
>> I think that's what Steven means when he says we added a way to
>> interpret the @rel syntax without actually changing it, because there
>> *no* syntax specified other than CDATA.

Julian Reschke wrote:
> And that's what is incorrect. *Because* the syntax is a plain string  
> it's an incompatible change to define a new syntax here. Keep in mind  
> that "foo:bar" already was a syntactically legal relation value before.

Without a formally ascribed meaning. RDFa now formally ascribes meaning to  
it if you choose. Just like microformats ascribes meaning to some class  
values.

Best wishes,

Steven

Received on Thursday, 5 March 2009 12:18:48 UTC