- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:21:53 +0100
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- CC: "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Shane McCarron wrote: > [...] For the avoidance of doubt, in future versions of the RDFa > Syntax Recommendation, we expect to require that the value of the XML > literal be serialized Canonical XML as defined in [XMLC14N]. We advise > current implementations to start supporting this use model now, since > other participants in the XML tool chain expect consistent, canonical XML. > > [XMLC14N] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n Why only "Canonical XML"? http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-rdf-XMLLiteral requires *Exclusive* Canonical XML (specifically "encoding as UTF-8 [RFC 2279] yields exclusive Canonical XML (with comments, with empty InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList ) [XML-XC14N]"), referencing http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n/ I expect this errata (and future versions of the RDFa Syntax Recommendation) should therefore refer to xml-exc-c14n instead of xml-c14n (unless the intent is a willful violation of rdf-concepts, or unless rdf-concepts is changed before then). -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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