Re: FW: REV attribute on A and LINK elements

To answer the basic question, it is conforming.  HTML+RDFa is an approved
extension to HTML5.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote:

> The validator now accepts full RDFa 1.1 markup in HTML documents.
>
> Mark Rogers <mark.rogers@powermapper.com>, 2014-04-17 08:29 -0500:
>
> > I believe the validator used to flag using the REV attribute on A and
> > LINK elements as obsolete, but no longer does this. The REV attribute is
> > still marked as non-conforming in the HTML5  CR and nightly specs. The
> > language looks the same in all the versions:
> >
> > "11.2 Non-conforming features"
> > "The following attributes are obsolete (though the elements are still
> part of the language), and must not be used by authors:
> > "rev on a elements"
> > "rev on link elements"
> >
> >
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
> >
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-html5-20140204/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
> >
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
> >
> > Looking into this a bit deeper, I think there might be a mismatch
> between the HTML5 CR and the RFDa recommendation (which says "RDFa supports
> the use of @rel and @rev on any element.")
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rdfa-core-20130822/#examples
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rdfa-core-20130822/#A-rev
> >
> > There are also 4 tests in the conformance checker test suite that use
> the REV attribute, with the naming indicating validators should not flag a
> conformance error:
> > html-rdfa/0006-isvalid.html
> > html-rdfa/0007-isvalid.html
> > html-rdfa/0009-isvalid.html
> > html-rdfa/0010-isvalid.html
> >
> > So, what's the correct behaviour - is this conforming or non-conforming?
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Mark
> >
> > Mark Rogers - mark.rogers@powermapper.com<mailto:
> mark.rogers@powermapper.com>
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