- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:58:02 -0400
- To: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Reference: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Oct/0052.html ** in a word: no The most crisp reason is a matter of short-term concern and language-lawyering technicalities. SVG 1.2 Tiny needs to progress rapidly up the rest of the Rec track. Their implementation experience is in the bag; this Last Call was to double check the repair of a few substantive problems from the previous CR version. CURIEs are about to enter CR; they are unlikely to catch and pass SVG 1.2T in maturity grade. So SVG 1.2T can't stand a normative dependency on CURIEs. Even over the long term, SVG should probably view things like @class and @rel/rev as derived from text/html and not from XHTML per se. Thus the answer only gets to a 'maybe.' The CURIE spec itself warns against using CURIEs as the datatype in attributes with a pre-existing practice of plain-text token use. And 'no' for now is the only safe choice. Al
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