[uf-discuss] RDFa and microformats

[Noah Slater]

>From your article:

"Note that XML namespaces are used to provide a namespace for the
metadata vocabulary."

I notice from your example that they are using Qnames for attribute values.

It worries me that yet again a W3C WG is flagrantly ignoring the W3C's
own recommendations - such as the SOAP designers - by seemingly not
actually reading the namespace specification.

"Who cares that section 1 of the namespaces specification says that
XML namespaces only apply to element tags and attribute names; let's
just pick a section we like, and ignore the rest of the specification.
Guess someone else has to sort out the mess[1]" - effbot [2]

>From your article:

"I think we're going to need namespacing to make general-purpose
semantic Web processors work correctly..."

Namespacing is great - there are only two problems:

  1) It is only valid in properly served XHTML (which only 10% of the
web can see [3])
  2) Qnames should not be used as attribute values - this only helps
BREAK semantic Web processors.

What a mess.

Friendly,
Noah :)

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/qnameids-2002-04-30
[2] http://effbot.org/zone/elementsoap-3.htm
[3] http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

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