Re: Related to: Re: (@content override @value): Should @content override @value? [RDFa 1.1 in HTML5]

Sorry - losing my mind.  The meta element never had @value.  Not even in
the earliest drafts of XHTML 2 where we started introducing RDFa.  Just
getting old.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
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> Doesn't @value continue to work on the meta element?
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> From the current HTML5 spec [1], the content attributes of <meta> are
> @name, @http-equiv, @content and @charset. I don't see @value there
> anymore. Perhaps I've missed something?
>
> Gregg
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html#the-meta-element
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> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>wrote:
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>> On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> > The issue relates @content vs. @value. Don't we have exactly the same
>> issue with @content vs. @datetime (on <time>)? I think, for the sake of
>> consistency, that should be specified as well.
>>
>> Yes, it should be the same for @datetime and @value, both having lower
>> precedence than @content. I wonder if we even need the @value attribute; I
>> think it may have previously been used on <meta>, which would make sense;
>> but now it seems it's only used on <input> and <li> elements (where it must
>> be a number). Perhaps we can just drop specific support for @value in
>> HTML+RDFa 1.1.
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>> > Ivan
>> >
>> > On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:36 , RDFa Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>> >
>> >> ISSUE-145 (@content override @value): Should @content override @value?
>> [RDFa 1.1 in HTML5]
>> >>
>> >> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/145
>> >>
>> >> Raised by: Manu Sporny
>> >> On product: RDFa 1.1 in HTML5
>> >>
>> >> The current HTML+RDFa 1.1 specification states:
>> >>
>> >> "In Section 7.5: Sequence, processing step 11, the HTML5 value
>> attribute must be utilized when generating output. If value is detected, it
>> must override content and must be processed according to the rules for
>> content."
>> >>
>> >> This seems backwards as @content is typically used to override other
>> literal-carrying attributes, like @value.
>> >>
>> >> The group should align how @content and @value is treated when placed
>> on the same element with how @content is treated on every other element in
>> RDFa 1.1.
>> >>
>> >> PROPOSAL: When both @content and @value appear on the same HTML
>> element, the value of @content MUST be used.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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> Shane P. McCarron
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