- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:54:06 -0400
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Ben Adida" <ben@mit.edu>, mark@coactus.com, "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>, "Stuart Williams" <skw@hp.com>, "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Mark Baker writes: > I don't see how the use of XHTML M12N relates to self-description. Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out. As I pointed out in the email where I first raised the issue [1], members of the TAG have suggested at the Bristol F2F [2], I have been encouraged to tell the RDFa self-description story: | - The paragraph starting "Even though this document is of media type | application/xhtml+xml " needs to be replaced with following your nose | through: application/xhtml+xml -> RFC 3236 -> HTML M12N -> | http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml -> RDFa specification I think we all agree that the self-description story for HTTP representations returned with media type application/xhtml+xml runs through the pertinent media type registration, which is RFC 3236. In fact, if I've understood correctly, it's been asserted (by Tim, I believe) that updating the xhmtl http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace description to include the RDFa attributes would be sufficient to provide the necessary self-describing properties. When I asked "why?", I believe that the answer I got was, as sketched above, that the media type registration referred to M12N which in turn returned to the namespace definition which would in turn be updated to cover RDFa. Now, I may have misunderstood either what was being suggested or why it is being suggested, but before telling this story in a revised draft I figured I should check the pertinent specifications, which is what led me to the somewhat vague language in RFC 3236. Again, if anyone can verify that I correctly understood the intentions of the TAG at the F2F (Norm seems to have confirmed that I understood the minutes correctly, as far as they go), and/or can clarify whether the advice I got is indeed supported by the pertinent specifications, I would be very grateful. Right now, it looks to me like the answer is at best a "maybe", and I read Mark and Steven as saying "why would you tell the story that way?". Thank you. Noah [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Aug/0116.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/05/20-minutes#item07 -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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