Re: rel=CURIE in RDFa, but rel=URI in Link:

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
>> If HTML5 later on decides to allow URIs in link/@rel (and I think I've 
>> seen several
>> proposals that go into that direction), then we have another conflict
>> between the RFDa community and the WHATWG crowd.
> 
> HTML5, as currently drafted, already allows URIs in link/@rel to the 
> same extent @xmlns takes a URI. That is, using a URI as a rel token is 
> allowed (if the extension designer registers it on the wiki), but the 
> token is compared as a string--not as a URI.

Actually, looking at <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#linkTypes>, I 
currently can't see any restriction on the syntax (except the one that 
follows of the fact that values are space-separated)-

Also "is compared as a string--not as a URI" is a bit misleading; there 
is no single URI comparison method; character-by-character matching is 
just one of many mentioned in RFC 3986 (see 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.6.2.1>).

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 12 September 2008 09:20:20 UTC