Re: Absorbing Microdata

  On 18/09/2010 16:05, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:33:07 +0100
> Martin McEvoy<martin@weborganics.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> <figcaption
>> xmlns:md="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/microdata#"property="md:http%3A%2F%2Fn.whatwg.org%2Fwork%23%3Atitle"about="_:HTMLAutoNode000">The
>> house I found.</figcaption>
>>
>> shouldn't the correct output be something like...
>>
>> <figcaption
>> xmlns:work="http://n.whatwg.org/work#"property="work:title"about="_:HTMLAutoNode000">The
>> house I found.</figcaption>
> No, the crazy-looking predicate URIs are mandated by the Microdata
> spec:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/#generate-the-triples-for-an-item
>
> See step 6.1.5, "If name contains no U+003A COLON characters".

Ugh! so they are that's awful, which asks the question Why?

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Martin McEvoy

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