PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-42: DOMString vs. string

If there are no objections to this proposal in 7 days, we will close
ISSUE-42: DOMString vs. string.

http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/42

Mark was right, DOMString is a UTF-16 encoded string and has nothing to
do with the DOM - it's just badly named. DOMString maps to whatever
language-native type that supports it in the implementing language.
There are even instructions on how to map it to unicode:

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#idl-DOMString

There is no 'string' type in the latest WebIDL spec, so this issue is
fairly straightforward - leave DOMString as-is.

I propose that we keep the RDFa API's use of DOMString as-is and close
ISSUE-42.

Please comment in 7 days from this post if you object to this proposal.
If there are no objections within 7 days, ISSUE-42 will be closed.

-- manu

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