- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:42 +0200
Manu Sporny wrote: > Kristof Zelechovski wrote: >> Has anyone considered having an URI in an entity in order to avoid typing it >> over and over? >> e.g. >> <!DOCTYPE html >> <!ENTITY myVocab "http://www.example.com/vocab/" > >> And later >> Property="&myVocab;myPred"? > > Yes, we did discuss this at great length in the RDFa community and to a > lesser extent in the Microformats community. The Microformats community > decided to not use namespaces at all, and the RDFa community ended up > using CURIEs for URI expression. RDFa specifically did not choose QNames > for the following reasons: > > 1. We believe QNames should not be used in attribute values. Out of curiosity: why use CURIEs but not QNames (I understand the other differences, I also understand why QNames in content are problematic, but why is the situation different for CURIEs????). > ... BR, Julian
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