Re: Error in the XHTML Profile

On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:12 , Toby Inkster wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 11:02 +0100, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> 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:-)
> 
> I volunteered to rewrite the XHTML vocab a few months ago. My rewrite is
> here:
> 
> http://buzzword.org.uk/2010/xhtml-vocab-20101110.xhtml
> 
> It still needs a few changes I think:
> 
> * We should discuss whether to include "describedby" in the profile
>  mapping to <http://www.w3.org/2007/05/powder-s#describedby>. This
>  relationship is used by POWDER and XRD/WebFinger, so it might be
>  nice to adopt it. We should have a resolution to adopt it or not.
> 

+1

> * We should adopt a revision policy for the document. I'd suggest a
>  policy of: new terms are added via W3C Recs. A mailing list is
>  provided for the announcement of new terms. New terms must be
>  announced on that list either three months before they're added
>  to the vocab, or when the spec defining them hits Last Call -
>  whichever comes first! This allows the vocab to change over time,
>  but also gives implementers reasonable security in hard-coding
>  or aggressively caching the vocab.
> 

It is unclear to me who will 'own' this document. The terms we would add are not (necessarily) for RDFa only, right?

Ivan


> * The information above the Introduction section needs revising in
>  that the XHTML2 Working Group is ceasing to exist within the W3C.
> 
> But once those issues are resolved, it would be nice to publish the
> updated vocabulary document.
> 
> -- 
> Toby A Inkster
> <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
> 


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