Re: rdfa parsing issue -- was: fixed https://foafssl.org/test/WebId

On 1/6/12 6:39 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>
> On 7 Jan 2012, at 00:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> On 1/6/12 1:37 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>>> yes, well this really should be documented on our wiki. This is the 
>>> kind of thing that
>>> is going to turn up again and again. I wonder even if it should be 
>>> in the spec as a note.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> What does it have to do with the spec? Again, you are bringing 
>> parsing into a spec that isn't about parsing. Make a side note in the 
>> Wiki for people that are using your approach and related libraries 
>> and tools.
>
> yes, it was a dramatical exaggeration. There are things we should 
> document.
>
> Is there someone who could be our wiki master? That is someone who 
> helps organise and make sure that good ideas are put into the wiki 
> even if only just to point to the e-mails, and who can help guide 
> people to fill out the details? I think that would be a useful role.
>
> Henry

A Data Wiki is a killer WebID application :-)

Kingsley
>
>>
>> Kingsley
>>>
>>> Henry
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 Jan 2012, at 17:57, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com 
>>>> <mailto:pldms@mac.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Henry and Jürgen,
>>>>
>>>>     On 06/01/12 12:49, Henry Story wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     > Shellac's parser parses the xhtml correctly as xhtml in fact, but
>>>>     > when the html parser is used it comes to a different conclusion.
>>>>
>>>>     Yes, this is becoming a classic issue, and has nothing to do
>>>>     with RDFa
>>>>     (although RDFa obscures the issue horribly).
>>>>
>>>>     > RDFA 1 is defined in xhtml only I understand, so it is true
>>>>     that we
>>>>     > are going beyond what the spec by trying to parse html too.
>>>>     Perhaps
>>>>     > this will be a lot simplified with rdfa1.1 which can be made
>>>>     to work
>>>>     > with html5.
>>>>
>>>>     Yes, RDFa 1.0 is only really defined for xhtml, although useful
>>>>     work was
>>>>     done on html 5 at the time (there are some html 5 tests). RDFa
>>>>     1.1 does
>>>>     address html 5, but note that it doesn't change anything here.
>>>>
>>>>     The problem is this:
>>>>
>>>>     <div rel="foaf:depiction" href="http://2sea.org/2sealogo.png"/>
>>>>     <div rel="cert:key">
>>>>            ...
>>>>     </div>
>>>>
>>>>     An xml parser sees a closed div, followed by another div. An
>>>>     html parser
>>>>     sees a broken div so repairs it as follows:
>>>>
>>>>     <div rel="foaf:depiction" href="http://2sea.org/2sealogo.png">
>>>>     <div rel="cert:key">
>>>>            ...
>>>>     </div>
>>>>     </div> <!-- close that div -->
>>>>
>>>>     i.e. one div contains another now, and thus you find
>>>>
>>>>     <http://2sea.org/2sealogo.png> cert:key ....
>>>>
>>>>     I ought to add a utility to switch the parser based on content
>>>>     type,
>>>>     however in practice there's so much broken xhtml out there that
>>>>     tag soup
>>>>     parsing is much safer (although it does lead to issues like this).
>>>>
>>>>     My advice would be to expect tag soup parsing in the wild and
>>>>     change the
>>>>     html:
>>>>
>>>>     <div rel="foaf:depiction"
>>>>     href="http://2sea.org/2sealogo.png"></div>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1. In Drupal 7 RDFa we purposely didn't use the minimized version 
>>>> of elements to ensure maximum compatibility. Here is the link to 
>>>> the rule we used: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3. So elements are 
>>>> always explicitly closed like this
>>>>
>>>> <span rel="schema:url" resource="/event/drupalcamp-nyc"></span>
>>>>
>>>> Steph.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Hope this makes sense,
>>>>
>>>>     Damian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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