On 06/11/2010 16:25, Kingsley Idehen wrote: [snip]
In addition, I think we've also triggered a POWDER fix that's been long overlooked.
And I'm grateful that it's come to my attention (wish I'd recognised the problem a lot earlier :-()
I've made a proposal internally (at W3C) that I want to run past at least one or two of the former POWDER WG members to make sure they're happy (one in particular). If that goes as hoped then there could be an erratum published as soon as Monday (8th) that would be become part of an edited Recommendation before long (maybe in the new year).
Bottom line is that wdrs:describedby was intended to be semantically identical to @rel describedby, i.e. with no range restriction. Since the Recommendation and namespace doc in the their present form are ambiguous it's clearly an error so making an entry on the errata page [1] is pretty straightforward. Once that's done there'll be a bit of outreach work to do on that. Getting the actual Rec edited takes a bit more 'process' but it's doable. (Fundamental rule about docs published in TR space at w3.org is that the bytes don't change. Editing means publishing a new version.)
I think the chances of there being an implementation that infers that the object of a wdrs:describedby predicate is a wdrs:Document is vanishingly small but, on the off chance anyone knows of such an implementation, please let me know.
(Incidentally, editing the Rec should also help us get the POWDER MIME type registered but that's orthogonal to the current discourse).
Phil [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/powder-errata -- Phil Archer W3C Mobile Web Initiative http://www.w3.org/Mobile http://philarcher.org @philarcher1
