Fwd: [Bug 23567] New: URI inconsistency in XHTML vocabulary space

Shane, Steven,

I am not sure how this came about but, indeed, the .../xhtml/vocab is redirected to .../xhtml/vocab/ by virtue of the fact that .../xhtml/vocab.html does not exist. I am not sure how this came about in the past, any reason? An reason why we could not, at least, repeat the vocab files themselves as vocab.html?

Ivan

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> Resent-From: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
> From: bugzilla@jessica.w3.org
> Subject: [Bug 23567] New: URI inconsistency in XHTML vocabulary space
> Date: October 19, 2013 05:16:16 GMT+02:00
> To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/bug-23567-6123@http.www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/>
> List-Id: <public-rdfa-wg.w3.org>
> 
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23567
> 
>            Bug ID: 23567
>           Summary: URI inconsistency in XHTML vocabulary space
>           Product: HTML WG
>           Version: unspecified
>          Hardware: PC
>                OS: Linux
>            Status: NEW
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: P2
>         Component: HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny)
>          Assignee: msporny@digitalbazaar.com
>          Reporter: krisstal_95@hotmail.com
>        QA Contact: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
> 
> (Please note that this issue affects the w3.org website rather than the
> HTML+RDFa specification)
> 
> The documented URI for the default XHTML vocabulary space is
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#
> For example, this page itself states: "This document describes the items that
> are available in the default XHTML vocabulary space:
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#."
> 
> However, this URL is a permanent redirect to 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/# (note the trailing slash).
> 
> This issue triggers some warnings on link validators, such as the one provided
> by the W3C itself. For an example, see this validation result:
> http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.opensourcecms.com%2Fdrupal%2F&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check
> 
> As many third-party implementations already rely on the documented URI, the
> safest approach to solve the issue would be to make sure that the W3C website
> does not redirect when visiting http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#
> 
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