ACTION-118 Status of ISSUE-137

I did a quick review.  We resolved at the meeting on 10 May [1] that we 
should include non-normative text that says what should be done into the 
HTML5+RDFa spec.

However, the spec already says in section 2.1 "Non-XML mode HTML+RDFa 
1.1 documents/should/be labeled with the Internet Media 
Type|text/html|as defined insection 12.1 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/iana.html#text-html>of the HTML5 
specification [HTML5 <http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#bib-HTML5>]." - this 
is normative.

We also already include text in section 3.1 that says what to do in the 
presence of @version: "The|version|attribute is not supported in HTML5 
and is non-conforming. However, if an HTML+RDFa document contains 
the|version|attribute on the|html|element, a conforming RDFa Processor 
must examine the value of this attribute. If the value matches that of a 
defined version of RDFa, then the processing rules for that version must 
be used. If the value does not match a defined version, or there is 
no|version|attribute, then the processing rules for the most recent 
version of RDFa 1.1 must be used."

A note in section 2.1 would be non-normative, and could serve to clarify:

Note: Some processors may not be able to detect the media type of the 
document being processed because of system limitations.  In these cases 
the default processing rules in [RDFA-CORE] [2] section 4.1 - RDFa 
Processor Conformance - take precedence.

Or something like that.


[1] http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2012-05-10
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/#conformance

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Shane McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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