Re: Official Response to ISSUE-114 from RDF Web Apps WG

On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:

> Hi Gregg,
> 
> 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-114: HTML5 content model for @href/@src coerces values to URLs
> https://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/track/issues/114
> 
> Explanation of Issue
> --------------------
> 
> HTML5 has DOM access rules for accessing @href/@src values (in addition
> to others) in "Resolve URLs":
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#resolve-a-url
> 
> The effect of these is to both require that relative URLs take into
> consideration xml:base, and that IRI paths are turned into URIs using
> percent encoding. (Note xml:base is not allowed in HTML5 docs, but it
> would be in XHTML5).
> 
> Step 6 normalizes any _host_ component to UTF-8 and then performs a IDNA
> ToASCII algorithm:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490#page-10
> 
> Step 7 normalizes any _path_ component that is not ASCII with the
> percent-encoded equivalent.
> 
> The result of both these steps is that IRIs may be converted to URIs.
> This means that @href and @src may not safely be used with IRIs that are
> not URIs. There is no such requirement on DOM access for @about, @typeof
> or @resource, so these may safely be used for representing IRIs, but may
> have different relative-IRI resolution algorithms imposed.
> 
> Working Group Decision
> ----------------------
> 
> RESOLVED: Place a note in the HTML+RDFa specification notifying authors
> that IRIs placed into @href, @src and @data could be transformed if
> access via the DOM.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-12-08#resolution_1
> 
> 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.

Thanks Manu, I'm satisfied with the resolution.

Gregg

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