Re: HTML+RDFa 1.1 - Section 7, Step 5/6 Modification Clarification

OK.  I'll be blunt.  I don't understand the modification described in the
HTML+RDFa 1.1 document at all.

The intent helps but doesn't clarify the text in the document.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>wrote:

>
> On May 14, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:
>
> > The HTML+RDFa 1.1 spec says:
> >
> > "In Section 7.5, processing step 5, if no IRI is provided by a resource
> attribute (e.g., @about, @href, @resource, or @src), then first check to
> see if the element is the head or body element. If it is, then set new
> subject to parent object."
> >
> > and
> >
> > "In Section 7.5, processing step 6, if no IRI is provided by a resource
> attribute (e.g., @about, @href, @resource, or @src), then first check to
> see if the element is the head or body element. If it is, then set new
> subject to parent object."
> >
> > but step 5 has two parts.  It is unclear how each part is modified:
> >
> > 1. Do you all mean that the new subject is only set if the element is
> 'head' or 'body'?
> > 2. In 5.1 and 5.2, the final default for the new subject is the value of
> the parent object.
> >
> > Also, for step 6, the default is already the parent object.
> >
> > I'm really not understanding what you all are after here.
>
> Just to clarify the intent, if you were to place @typeof on the <html>
> element, it would get an implied base of the document location; however,
> without these special rules, if you did the same on <body> or <head>, it
> could create a new BNode subject. This rule causes it to take the subject
> from the parent, which would either be the document location, or some other
> declared subject. This is a common source of problems, thus the special
> rule.
>
> Gregg
>
> > --
> > --Alex Milowski
> > "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of
> the
> > inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
> > considered."
> >
> > Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
>
>


-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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