- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:54:16 +0100
- To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
- Cc: "Ben Adida" <ben@adida.net>, "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml task force" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, www-html-editor@w3.org
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:05:18 +0100, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net> wrote: >> > But would you say there are any 'harmful' effects on the document? >> > After all, it's no different to putting the attribute 'banana' onto an >> > element, and then using the URI stored in the attribute as a unique >> > identifier for some prefix substitution. >> >> Not on the document, but certainly on document authors. > > Do you mean physically or psychologically...maybe even financially? Mentally. >> And we can't move >> namespace processing (at that level) into text/html. It has been tried, >> and it failed miserably on the web. > > I don't really understand this--how do you mean it was tried? Opera had an implementation that processed xmlns="" in text/html. Not a pretty sight. > Anyway, > we're not talking about adding namespace processing to HTML. We're > talking about using attributes that can be leveraged by the RDFa > processor. HTML can cope with other attributes being added, and it > just so happens that the attributes we're talking of adding include a > colon in the name, which will have no effect on the HTML processing, > but will provide a lot of useful information for those extracting RDF. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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