- From: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:30:19 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>
- Cc: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org, newsml-2@yahoogroups.com
My 2 cents while glancing at this. Ian, thank you very much for pointing out a real technical issue that we should absolutely address. This is one of the first issues we'll take up in July (when I start leading the telecons again.) Anne, your point is well taken: there might be a way here to hit two birds with one stone: moving away from xmlns declarations to address Ian's point, and towards something that is more text/html friendly at the same time (but still XHTML compatible, of course), which might make RDFa adoption workable for the HTML5 folks, if they so choose. Ian, I see on your blog that you said that using '.' and '-' were arbitrary decisions. So, I'm wondering, since I now clearly understand how QNames are not supposed to apply to attribute *values*, why didn't you choose the ':' separator? There would be no overlap with QNames from a machine parser standpoint, since QNames don't apply to attribute values, but at least, from a "human parser" perspective, they would immediately ring a bell. (I also see that you're trying to find a way to make copy&paste work with eRDF so that schema declarations aren't purely in the HEAD, excellent!) -Ben On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:38:23 +0200, Ian Davis > <iand@internetalchemy.org> wrote: >>> Hi Ian, >>> Good point. NewsML 2 has also taken your approach #2. What >>> syntax is eRDF using for this? >> >> eRDF uses a convention that I first saw described in a W3C >> workshop report from 1996 [1]. This was later adopted for the >> Dublin Core[2]. >> >> Basically a schema prefix is declared in the head of the document >> like this: >> >> <link rel="schema.dc" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" /> > > That's interesting. It also seems a better solution than RDFa as it > integrates with text/html documents rather nicely. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> > <http://www.opera.com/> > >
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