- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:24:36 -0500
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
Hi Ivan, This is an official response from the RDFa Working Group concerning a Last Call issue that you raised concerning the processing order of the @prefix attribute: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/62 We discussed this issue during the telecon last week, the record of the conversation can be found in the minutes: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-01-13#ISSUE__2d_62__3a____40_prefix_processing_order As you may recall, the conversation focused on whether or not we had decided that @prefix would be processed beginning-to-end or end-to-beginning. Earlier, when discussing ISSUE-23: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/23 we had decided that @profile should be processed end-to-beginning based on argumentation from Toby Inkster and Mark Birbeck. The group decided that the order that was picked for @profile should be the same for @prefix to reduce the cognitive load on developers. We didn't want @profile to be processed end-to-beginning and @prefix to be processed beginning-to-end. After some discussion, we decided that beginning-to-end seemed to make the most amount of sense and that the decision should apply to both @prefix and @profile. That is to say, this decision overturns the decision we made for ISSUE-23. @prefix MUST be processed beginning-to-end. @profile MUST be processed beginning-to-end. Thank you for this feedback, Ivan, as well as all of the feedback, implementation advice, and W3C process suggestions that you have provided throughout the life-cycle of the RDFa work. Your time and energy to ensure that we make it to REC while doing a thorough job is very much appreciated. Since this is a Last Call issue, we ask that you please respond to this e-mail and let us know if this solution works for you. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Linked Data in JSON http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/10/30/json-ld/
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