Just to close this out. Since there have been no further comments on
this thread, I assume the group is in agreement this text should be
incorporated into the errata document. Ben, please put this on the
Agenda for Thursday so we can get a resolution on the record.
Ivan Herman wrote:
Oops, sorry! I misunderstood. I thought you were proposing a replacement
text for the RDFa Syntax document, ie, that is what I was looking for.
Apologies.
As I said, I don't disagree with anything you write...
Ivan
Shane McCarron wrote:
Ivan Herman wrote:
Shane, just to avoid misunderstandings: can you give want exactly the
new text would be? It is not 100% clear from your mail (not that I
disagree with anything you say:-)
Ummm... huh? The text in my mail below is EXACTLY what I want the
errata document to say. I am not, at this time, proposing any new
wording for some future RDFa Syntax revision.
Ivan
Shane McCarron wrote:
I indicated at the end of the call today I would draft some errata text
to tighten the spec with regard to what portions of the Namespaces in
XML Recommendation are relevant to RDFa Syntax. Here is my proposed
text:
Section 5.5 step 2 - The text of step 2 reads in part
"Mappings are provided by @xmlns. The value to be mapped is set by
the XML namespace prefix, and the value to map is the value of the
attribute—a URI. Note that the URI is not processed in any way; in
particular if it is a relative path it is not resolved against the
current [base]. Authors are advised to follow best practice for
using namespaces, which includes not using relative paths." The
real meaning if this is only clear in the context of Section
5.4.1. Scoping of Prefix Mappings, which normatively includes the
syntax processing rules of the Namespaces in XML Recommendation.
For the avoidance of doubt, it should be understood that it is
ONLY the syntax processing rules of Namespaces in XML that are
relevant to this Recommendation. Those rules define the legal
syntax for attributes beginning with the sequence 'xmlns:'.
Conforming RDFa Processors MUST evaluate the definition of URI
mappings in a manner consistent with those rules.
Further, the beginning of text cited above should be read as
"Mappings are provided via the PrefixedAttName production as
defined in [XMLNS]."
Comments?
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