Re: Official Response to ISSUE-129 from RDF Web Apps WG

Hi Manu,

Thank you. I find the decision made by the group acceptable.

Best regards,
Niklas


2012/2/26 Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>:
> Hi Niklas,
>
> Thank you for your public feedback on the RDFa 1.1 documents. This is an
> official response from the RDF Web Apps WG to your Last Call issue
> before we enter the Candidate Recommendation phase for the RDFa 1.1
> specifications.
>
> Your issue was tracked here:
>
> https://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/129
>
> Explanation of Issue
> --------------------
>
> You were concerned that the specification text made it seem as if the
> Working Group had intended for the terms defined in an initial context
> to never be overridden, even by @vocab. Your primary concern is that you
> did not want authors to second guess which terms were overridden and
> which ones were not based on the Host Language. This would lead to
> author confusion and eventually a mistrust that the terms they thought
> they were using, via @vocab, end up resolving to terms in the default
> context instead of terms in the vocabulary specified by @vocab.
>
> You had proposed a simple change to the RDFa Core processing rules as a
> result:
>
> """
> The essence of the proposal change the rules in 7.4.3 to:
>
> [[[
> * If there is a local default vocabulary, the IRI is obtained by
> concatenating that value and the term.
> * Otherwise, check if the term matches an item in the list of local
> term mappings. First compare against the list case-sensitively, and if
> there is no match then compare case-insensitively. If there is a
> match, use the associated IRI.
> * Otherwise, the term has no associated IRI and must be ignored.
> ]]]
> """
>
> Working Group Decision
> ----------------------
>
> It was not the intent of the Working Group, when it created the @vocab
> attribute, to allow terms defined in the initial context to override the
> @vocab attribute. Therefore, the group agreed with your viewpoint that
> @vocab should override all terms specified in the initial context.
>
> RESOLVED: @vocab nukes everything (that is, when @vocab is used, it
> overrides all terms defined in the initial context) (non-substantive)
>
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2012-02-23#resolution_7
>
> Feedback
> --------
>
> Since this is an official Working Group response to your issue, we would
> appreciate it if you responded to this e-mail and let us know if the
> decision made by the group is acceptable to you as soon as possible.
>
> -- manu
>
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Received on Monday, 27 February 2012 21:40:46 UTC