Official Response to ISSUE-122 from RDF Web Apps WG

Hi Dominik,

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 issue before we enter
the 3rd Last Call for the RDFa 1.1 work this coming Tuesday. The Last
Call will last for 3 weeks, so there is still time for you to discuss
your concerns if we have not fully addressed them.

Your issue was tracked here:

ISSUE-122: Should RDFa Core 1.1 introduce a new @datatypeLibrary attribute
https://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/122

Explanation of Issue
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You had asked us to add a @datatypeLibrary attribute, or something to a
similar effect, in RDFa Core 1.1:

"""
We use only one datatype library in @datatype very often. Also in many
cases it is just XML Schema Datatypes. I propose @datatypeLibrary to
declare datatype vocabluary to use in @datatype.
"""

Working Group Decision
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The group considered your suggestion, the full discussion can be found here:

http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-12-08#ISSUE__2d_122__3a____40_datatypeLibrary_attribute

While your suggestion would make markup of the type that you refer to
above easier, it would also further complicate RDFa. Additionally, we
already pre-define the xsd prefix, so we don't feel that an extra 4
characters per datatype warrants a new attribute to remove the need to
type in "xsd:". In the end, we found that the use cases were not
compelling enough to warrant the addition of this feature.

RESOLVED: Do not support @datatypeLibrary proposal due to lack of
compelling use cases.

http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-12-08#resolution_3

Feedback
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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 Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:54:39 UTC