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

  I don't think there is any support in the working group for removing a 
prefixing capability.  FWIW The Role Attribute specification (PFWG) 
relies upon CURIEs and uses prefixes too.

On 9/15/2010 11:14 AM, Toby Inkster wrote:
> 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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