Re: HTML WG: ISSUE-120 Use of prefixes is too complicated for a Web technology

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:59:53 -0400
Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/120

Ultimately I think people will use prefixes whether RDFa provides such
a facility or not. If prefixes were taken out of RDFa (which they
should not be BTW as it would cause massive backwards incompatibility -
but deprecating them might be a possibility) then people would end up
using things like this in server-side code:

	<?php
	  $FOAF = 'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/';
	  // ...
	  echo "<span property=\"${FOAF}name\">${name}</span>\n";
	?>

People are going to want to abbreviate URIs somehow.

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