Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-36: default vocab specification

+1. 

Actually, pyRdfa implements it, too. The extra complications, once the mechanism for @profile was in place, was negligible.

Ivan

On Sep 5, 2010, at 16:45 , Manu Sporny wrote:

> If there are no objections to this proposal in 7 days, we will close
> ISSUE-36: default vocab specification.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/36
> 
> This proposal asked several questions that I believe the WG has answered
> over the past several months:
> 
>> 1. How does one declare a default vocabulary via the profile document?
> 
> This is outlined here:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/ED-rdfa-core-20100726/#s_profiles
> 
>> 2. How does the declaration affect the @vocab attribute, would it
>> override it and if so, in what order?
> 
> @vocab always overrides, outlined in Section 7.5: Sequence, Step #2:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/ED-rdfa-core-20100726/#sequence
> 
>> 3. How does the declaration affect the CURIEs like ":next"?
> 
> The default prefix mapping is specified in Section 6:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/ED-rdfa-core-20100726/#s_curies
> 
>> The biggest question is the value of this feature?
> 
> The WG felt that the value provided was enough to include the feature in
> RDFa Core.
> 
>> What is the use case that we are attempting to support?
> 
> Easier markup that doesn't require the use of CURIEs. Specifically, we
> are trying to make sure that people that come from the Microformats
> community can transition to RDFa without needing to understand how
> CURIEs work.
> 
>> Does this overly-complicate RDFa without much payback?
> 
> The addition to the spec was fairly easy, and we already have an
> implementation (Gregg Kellogg's Ruby parser) demonstrating that the
> feature doesn't overly-complicate RDFa processors.
> 
> I propose that we close ISSUE-36. All sub-items related to the issue
> have been addressed and spec text already exists.
> 
> Please comment in 7 days from this post if you object to this proposal.
> If there are no objections within 7 days, ISSUE-36 will be closed.
> 
> -- manu
> 
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