Official RDFa Response: ISSUE-104: Determine if RDFa should normatively state that <link> and <meta> elements are supported in flow content. from Gregg Kellogg on 2011-09-09 (public-rdfa-wg@w3.org from September 2011)

From: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:10:16 -0400
To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
CC: W3C RDFWA WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <DBAACB8D-0033-455C-AA80-2C59E2E1C63A@greggkellogg.net>

Jeni,

This is an official response from the RDF Web Applications Working Group, formerly the RDFa Working Group, on your 2nd Last Call comment for RDFa Core 1.1. The issue being tracked is here:

ISSUE-104: Determine if RDFa should normatively state that <link> and <meta> elements are supported in flow content.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/104

Your comment was that RDFa should allow for the use of <link> and <meta> elements in flow content, as Microdata specifically supports. This was discussed during a telecon[1] and we came to the following resolution:

RESOLVED: on issue 104: this is not what this wg can solve, the HTML5 WG has to allow these elements everywhere by relaxing the restriction of being used with microdata attributes only; the RDFa processing rules automatically apply.

The RDFa Core 1.1 processing rules are defined in general for XML-type languages (including non-well formed HTML) and fully support the use of <link> and <meta> elements within flow content. The restriction is made in HTML5 to restrict the use of these elements to the <head> element. Restrictions on the use of elements within HTML flow content is outside the purview of this working group. However, it should be noted, that HTML content including these elements would be processed correctly by a conforming RDFa 1.1 processor.

The group would support a change made by the HTML5 WG to allow the general use of <link> and <meta> within flow content with RDFa attributes.

Since this is an official Last Call response, could you please respond as soon as possible and let us whether or not the Working Group has considered your request and responded accordingly. Please let us know if this is an acceptable outcome and whether you can live with the decision. Thank you for reviewing the RDFa specification and sending in your comments. :)

Gregg Kellogg

[1] http://www.w3.org/2011/09/08-rdfa-minutes.html#action01

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