- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 20:56:03 +0200
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- CC: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, RDFa Community <public-rdfa@w3.org>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
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
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