Re 2: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-34: meta-name triple generation

An additional information: the facility to (optionally) understand meta's @name has been implemented in pyRdfa for a long time. I do not have statistics on its usage though; but I have never received real comment on it either.

Ivan

On Sep 5, 2010, at 16:26 , Manu Sporny wrote:

> If there are no objections to this proposal in 7 days, we will close
> ISSUE-34: meta-name triple generation.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/34
> 
> This issue raises the question of whether or not RDFa Core's processing
> rules should recognize the META element's @name attribute when
> generating triples.
> 
> There are a number of arguments against doing this at present:
> 
> 1. One can already place @property on the META element in order to
>   generate triples.
> 2. Adding processing of @name would further complicate the RDFa
>   processing rules, which are already very complicated from the
>   standpoint of someone new to RDFa.
> 3. Adding processing of the @name attribute doesn't seem to be
>   something that has heavy demand (as opposed to things like
>   "deprecating" xmlns: and adding RDFa Profiles).
> 4. Facebook's OGP uses @property, not @name - when this issue
>   was first raised, there was concern that they would use @name
>   instead of @property. This is no longer a concern since they
>   use @property.
> 5. There is nothing preventing RDFa Processors from processing
>   @name in addition to all of the other RDFa Core attributes.
>   Why not wait to see if this is a widely implemented feature
>   before placing it into the specification?
> 
> There is really only one argument (that I can see) in favor of adding
> support for @name:
> 
> 1. Providing an HTML-native mechanism for generating triples
>   from HTML document metadata.
> 
> I propose that we do not add support for @name in RDFa Core and close
> ISSUE-34.
> 
> Please comment in 7 days from this post if you object to this proposal.
> If there are no objections within 7 days, ISSUE-34 will be closed
> 
> -- manu
> 
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