Re: sanity check Re: ISSUE-66

On Mar 3, 2011, at 15:08 , Nathan wrote:

> Ivan Herman wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 13:49 , Nathan wrote:
>>>> The permitted use of xmlns="" as one of the prefix declaration mechanisms specifically will cause serious compatibility issues for reasons that have similiarly been elucidated numerous times over the past few years.
>>> we're deprecated xmlns for all but bc reasons now - I think the main point is it's mentioned in HTML5+RDFa 50+ times, more than any other term in fact, can we drop that to zero, and express intent to do so to Ian in the response?
>>> 
>> ???? I am not sure about 50 but I looked at the xhtml+rdfa document and all occurrences of @xmlns are in the XML Schema specification or at the xmlns appearing in the <html> element. These are all legal and have nothing to do with RDFa. (Some of these may also disappear from the HTML5 document.) The same holds for rdfa-1.1 core document 
> 
> was specifically speaking about http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/ which has 54 - or is that not covered by this wg at this time or? (I could be missing something) - rdfa-core is already absolute minimum, the xhtml/xml docs can mention as much as they want imho.
> 

Ah! Formally, his comments are not relevant to that document which is not produced by the RDFa WG. I also presume that Many will have a new round of editing on that document when we are ready with ours. For example (thanks to your push...) @xmlns has been really 'hidden' in the RDFa 1.1 Core so I would expect that to be really really hidden in the HTML5 document, too.

I would even go as far as saying that the HTML5 version of RDFa disallows @xmlns altogether in the non-XML serialization. We may want to discuss that but, as I said, I am not sure that would yield any problem and may take that thorny issue away... Manu, may be worth discussing on the meeting

Ivan


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