Error in the XHTML Profile

Shane,

Victor Andrée (cc-d) contacted me a few days ago because he found some bug in my newest pyRdfa code. However... one issue was not my bug but yours:-)

at the moment, the XHTML Profile file[1] has RDFa snippets of the sort

[[[
 <dt id="alternate" about="#alternate" property='rdfa:term' typeof="rdf:Property">alternate</dt>
    <dd about="#alternate" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="xsd:string"><span property='rdfa:uri' content='#alternate'>alternate</span> 
    designates alternate versions for a resource.</dd>
]]]

and that generates:

[[[
xhv:alternate a rdf:Property ;
     rdfs:comment """alternate 
    designates alternate versions for a resource."""^^xsd:string ;
     rdfs:member xhv:relrev-properties ;
     rdfa:term "alternate"@en-US ;
     rdfa:uri "#alternate"@en-US . 
]]]

There are actually two problems there, a minor and a major.

1. The major one: the object for rdfa:uri should be a full, absolute URI an not a fragment. I know that there is a <base> in the header, but that does not affect a literal...
2. Mainly for that rdf:uri but even for the term, I am not sure that adding a @en-US is o.k. I do not expect any processing node to be bothered, but, well,... I guess a lang="" is in order for all the statements...

Ie, the XHTML code should be:

[[[
 <dt id="alternate" about="#alternate" property='rdfa:term' typeof="rdf:Property" lang="">alternate</dt>
    <dd about="#alternate" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="xsd:string"><span property='rdfa:uri' content='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#alternate' lang="">alternate</span> 
    designates alternate versions for a resource.</dd>
]]]

Thanks!

Ivan



[1] http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/

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