I have forwarded this to the RDFa developer mailing list, Eduard... just so that it's noted in a record somewhere public.
Eduard Pascual wrote: > Just some opinions: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Manu Sporny <mspo...@digitalbazaar.com> > wrote: >> Speaking as an RDFa Task Force member - we're currently looking at an >> alternative prefix binding mechanism, so that this: >> >> xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; >> >> could also be declared like this in non-XML family languages: >> >> prefix="foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; >> > Could <meta name="prefix" content="foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/";> > do the job? I think adding a new @name value for meta would involve > less work than adding an entire new attribute. This was discussed as a possibility at one point, I don't quite remember what the argument was against it. Perhaps somebody else on the list can remember? > In either case, may I suggest an alternative syntax, like > "foaf:http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/";? That's a quite subjective opinion, > but the "=" inside attribute values seem too wrong to me, and they > quite ruin the readability. We had been contemplating separators other than '=', ':' did come up in the conversation as a possibility. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Website Launch http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch
