Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Bonner, Matt wrote:
> > > > > Well, for example, HTML5 provides the data-* attributes. Could ccREL
> > > > > use
> > > > > those instead?  To flip what you have said, perhaps reading/skimming
> > > > > the
> > > > > "extensions" sections HTML5 spec would help the ccREL advocates
> > > > > understand
> > > > > how best to fit ccREL into HTML5.
> > > > The HTML5 spec admittedly doesn't make that very easy, but there's an
> > > > entry
> > > > in the FAQ that covers the main extension points:
> > > > 
> > > >    http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#HTML5_should_support_a_way_for_anyone_to_invent_new_elements.21
> > > > 
> > > > For example, RDF n3 could be included directly (and unambiguously) using
> > > > the
> > > > <script type="..."> extension mechanism.
> > > "The script element allows authors to include dynamic script and script
> > > data
> > > in their documents." -- <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#script>
> > 
> > Right, this would be script data.
> 
> How is this script data? Where's the script?

Hm, you're right, the terminology here isn't great. I've updated HTML5 to 
unambiguously allow this.

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