Re: HTML 4 Profile for RDFa

Shane McCarron wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>
>> It's clear that if RDFa is to be used with prefix declarations done 
>> with xmlns, then mixing uppercase and lowercase declarations is not 
>> going to work.
>>
>> I think restricting prefixes to be lower-case (insert proper Unicode 
>> terminology here) would be acceptable; it's easy to live with, and 
>> avoids introducing yet another prefix declaration mechanism.
> I would not be opposed to adding text in the RDFa in HTML definition 
> like "prefix names SHOULD be defined in lower-case to help ensure 
> maximum portability among parsers, since it is common for DOM-based 
> parsers to not preserve the case of attribute names."
> 
> I don't see there being any need to change the definition of XML-based 
> languages like RDFa for XHTML.  After all, in XML case is preserved.  Or 
> is ot someone's goal that documents be able to be parsed as EITHER XML 
> or HTML?  It's not my goal.  If I define a document using an HTML family 

I know Sam wants that. But if there's a simple way to achieve this, such 
as only using lower-case prefixes, that should be totally sufficient...

> ...

BR, Julian