- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:18:21 +0200
On 15/5/09 14:11, Shelley Powers wrote: > Kristof Zelechovski wrote: >> I do not think anybody in WHATWG hates the CURIE tool; however, the >> following problems have been put forward: >> >> Copy-Paste >> The CURIE mechanism is considered inconvenient because is not >> copy-paste-resilient, and the associated risk is that semantic elements >> would randomly change their meaning. > > Well, no, the elements won't randomly change their meaning. The only > risk is copying and pasting them into a document that doesn't provide > namespace definitions for the prefixes. Are you thinking that someone > will be using different namespaces but the same prefix? Come on -- do > you really think that will happen? The most likely case is with Dublin Core, but DC data varies enough already that this isn't too destructive... Dan
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