- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:30:20 -0500
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
I agree with this proposal. There are other ways to solve this basic issue, but this is the simplest. On 3/25/2011 6:18 AM, Nathan wrote: > Ivan Herman wrote: >> - All that being said, and thinking about it a bit further, I think >> we indeed made a mistake yesterday with the decision in terms of what >> the community expectation on this would be. We now >> formalize/generalize the XHTML+RDFa spec to the more general XML >> world; in the former case we did define an implicit @about on <body> >> and <head> and I believe it is a reasonable thing to say that we >> generalize this instead of the decision we took yesterday. In _that_ >> sense, that decision was wrong. Manu's proposal is therefore to >> overturn the decision of yesterday and introduce a rule that says >> "have an explicit @about=BASE on the top element, unless there is >> already one" (it is more complicated, I know, but it boils down to >> that, effectively.) _And I agree with the proposal_. > > Likewise, I agree with the proposal of setting about="", but because > it's good to generate the triples, not because the current spec has a > technically fault. > > Best, > > Nathan -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
Received on Friday, 25 March 2011 15:31:00 UTC