On 15/5/09 14:11, Shelley Powers wrote:
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
I do not think anybody in WHATWG hates the CURIE tool; however, the
following problems have been put forward:
Copy-Paste
The CURIE mechanism is considered inconvenient because is not
copy-paste-resilient, and the associated risk is that semantic elements
would randomly change their meaning.
Well, no, the elements won't randomly change their meaning. The only
risk is copying and pasting them into a document that doesn't provide
namespace definitions for the prefixes. Are you thinking that someone
will be using different namespaces but the same prefix? Come on -- do
you really think that will happen?
The most likely case is with Dublin Core, but DC data varies enough
already that this isn't too destructive...
Dan
