- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:07:19 +0200
On Jan 18, 2009, at 20:48, Dan Brickley wrote: > On 18/1/09 19:34, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Jan 18, 2009, at 01:32, Shelley Powers wrote: >> >>> Are you then saying that this will be a showstopper, and there will >>> never be either a workaround or compromise? >> >> >> Are the RDFa TF open to compromises that involve changing the XHTML >> side >> of RDFa not to use attribute whose qualified name has a colon in >> them to >> achieve DOM Consistency by changing RDFa instead of changing parsing? > > I don't believe the RDFa TF are in a position to singlehandedly > rescind a W3C Recommendation, ie. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014/ > . > > What they presumably could do is propose new work items within W3C, > which I'd guess would be more likely to be accepted if it had the > active enthusiasm of the core HTML5 team. Am cc:'ing TimBL here who > might have something more to add. > > Do you have an alternative design in mind, for expressing the > namespace mappings? The simplest thing is not to have mappings but to put the corresponding absolute URI wherever RDFa uses a CURIE. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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