- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:41:56 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, www-tag@w3.org, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > If recipients need to change, then you have introduced a new > notation/syntax/whateveryouwannacallit. Recipients only need to change if they lent @rel a syntax/meaning/whateveryouwannacallit beyond the spec. If you assumed @rel in HTML or XHTML was a URI, you went beyond the spec. RDFa specifically ensured that existing *specified* interpretations of @rel were preserved, i.e. link types. And RDFa specifically ensured that the list of link types could be extended in the future without interfering with our use of @rel including prefixed values which, according to the spec, you should have simply ignored as local values. I think that's what Steven means when he says we added a way to interpret the @rel syntax without actually changing it, because there *no* syntax specified other than CDATA. -Ben
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