- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 13:21:07 +0000
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: Fred Marka <fredmarka@hotmail.com>, www-validator@w3.org
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: >> RDFa needed a way to specify the property designated by arbitrary >> elements. Overloading @name would not have been realistic, since @name >> already has different meanings on different elements (e.g. as a >> fragment identifier, as a form submission key). > > Oh, I thought that was addressed/solved by the attribute "scheme"; > is that not the case ? Not really. @scheme disambiguates names in meta @name (RDFa tries to solve the same problem with CURIEs, prefixing, namespacing). But @scheme cannot distinguish between utterly different meanings of @name itself: it only applies to one of those meanings. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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