- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:55:28 -0400
- To: RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
- CC: Richard Cyganiak <richard.cyganiak@deri.org>
If there are no objections to this proposal in 14 days, we will close ISSUE-40: no triples for empty elements. http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/40 We have traditionally gone to great lengths to not generate useless triples. This is in that same vein - an attempt to not generate useless triples. Having a triple like the following is mostly useless: <> foo:bar "". While one could make the argument that the existence of the triple could trigger some sort of behavior, the much stronger counter-argument is that, due to templating engines and lazy programming, there will be far more useless triples generated than useful triples. I propose that we change the RDFa Core processing rules such that an element that contains a @property attribute, no @content attribute, and no text content will not generate a triple. Please comment in 14 days from this post if you object to this proposal. If there are no objections within 14 days, the specification text will be added and ISSUE-40 will be closed. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: WebID - Universal Login for the Web http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/2/
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