Re: RDFa reliance on namespace declaration

[Ian Davis]

On 15/06/2006 17:46, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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[Sorry, don't have Ian's original in my mbox??]
Misha Wolf writes:

2) replace namespace declaration mechanism with declarations based in 
the actual content with semantics specified by RDFa

Why does this make them less vulnerable to being lost during
transformations?

The risk remains but is of a much lesser degree and of a different 
nature. The identity XSLT transformation will leave content alone, but 
could quite easily change namespace prefixes.

The issue is one of coupling across different layers.

Ian