- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:13 +0100
- To: "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
In fact I proposed something like this at a talk at the Technical Plenary in 2003. Glad to see it's finally getting some traction... http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/tp-steven-web/ Steven On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:11 +0100, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > Sam Ruby wrote: >> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, has discussed the following in the >> context of the Hypertext Coordination Group (HCG) and at the TPAC, but I >> have not seen it discussed here: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/08-quin-balisage-namespaces/ > > (bcc: RDFa TF) > > Yes, Liam' proposal is a good one. > > A number of us have been discussing the "Namespace Definition files" > approach offline for a number of months. I remember that Mark Birbeck > had also brought the concept up about a year ago in a XHTML+RDFa Task > Force telecon. > > While there are a number of issues to be worked out, I think this is the > right direction for the distributed extensibility debate. It provides a > solid replacement for xmlns: while requiring authors to know what a > namespace is or how to use it. It seems like this approach could be a > good compromise and it seems to be in line with requirements put forth > by WHATWG, the RDFa TF and HTML WG. > > -- manu >
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