- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:52:12 -0500
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking wrote: > The problem is that the way HTML parsing works, markup like: > > <div xmlns:foo="http://namespace.example.org"> > > Does not parse the xmlns:foo attribute into something that "declare > [an] XML Namespace mapping". Specifically, it does not create an > attribute in the "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" namespace. Or an > attribute with a "xmlns" prefix and "foo" localName. It creates an > attribute in the null namespace, with a localName that is "xmlns:foo". > > So *an* attribute shows up in the DOM. Just not an attribute that > declares a XML Namespace. > > Now, we can argue if that is how HTML5 should define parsing. But that > is how it currently defines it. And as far as I can see the HTML+RDFa > spec does not seem to change that. > Andy that's fine. We don't care. RDFa doesn't use namespaces. RDFa uses vocabularies and prefix mappings. As long as an implementation can discover the prefix mappings and transl;ate vocabulary item references into those mappings, we are good. As far as I can tell, that means we are good everywhere. -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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