Nathan wrote:
Manu Sporny wrote:
Just a heads-up. The editor of the HTML5 specification has escalated an
issue in the HTML WG that started out as a bug against RDFa in HTML.
This concerns the design decision to use prefixes in RDFa as well as the
concept of CURIEs:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/120
The entire bug history can be found here:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7670
can somebody point me to a proposed and viable alternative?
Is the HTML editor open to having first class support for
prefixes/CURIEs in HTML, such as the introduction of a new metadata
element "prefix" with the attributes @name and @href (or "curie" with
the attributes @prefix and @href)?
i.e. is the HTML editor looking to introduce well defined and easily
maintainable prefix/curie support in to HTML? or conversely, is the HTML
editor looking to relegate @prefix on the grounds that it's too
complicated and difficult to maintain moving forwards, without proposing
or seconding an alternative solution?
as an aside, if @prefix is defined by a specification which extends
HTML, then does it fall under the HTML editors remit to maintain @prefix?
Best,
Nathan
