Hello All,
After a fairly lengthy discussion over the last week or so about
prefixes, and them being unsuitable for HTML, I believe that they are
an error in RDFa and XHTML in general.
All RDFa documents that I have seen so far are "malformed" and invalid
when serialized as XML, example:
<div xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
<h2 property="dc:title">The trouble with Bob</h2>
<h3 property="dc:creator">Alice</h3>
...
</div>
The above example is invalid because it declares the div having a prefix
of dc: example:
<dc:div xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
<h2 property="dc:title">The trouble with Bob</h2>
<h3 property="dc:creator">Alice</h3>
...
</dc:div>
Most people on this list Know this already, I just thought it would be
nice to say just in case someone pops by wandering what the problem is
with using xmlns ;)
Thanks
--
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
