Hi, folks- Ben Adida wrote (on 7/16/09 1:03 PM):
Here's my proposed alternative: use RDF/OWL for vocabulary mappings, and add to RDFa only the ability to declare a default prefix. Markup in the page: <div about="#me" prefix="http://myvocab.org/#";> My name is<span property="name">Ben Adida</span>
Sorry to bikeshed about this so early, but please reconsider the name for the attribute @prefix. @prefix refers to the mechanism, not the conceptual relation, and is not intuitive. RDFa should be designed for people coming from the HTML world, not from the RDF/SemWeb world. If you want to give people a set of semantic attributes that will be easy for them to learn, understand, and remember, you should name the attributes according to their function, not their form.
I suggest @context or @scope something similar, because what the prefix does is to qualify a term according to a given resource, right?
I don't think most Web developers know the "namespace prefix" terminology, and without that jargon, @prefix could mean pretty much anything.
Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
