ISSUE-23: @profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP

profile-order

@profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDFa 1.1 Core

Raised by:

Toby Inkster

Opened on:

2010-05-07

Description:

In HTML 4.01 only the first URI in the list of URIs in the @profile attribute is considered significant.

The XMDP spec (used in Microformats) in a deliberately over-liberal interpretation expands that to say that the first URI in @profile is the *most* significant; with the others being progressively less significant. In practise, this means that if the same term is defined by two profiles in the same attribute, then the profile listed earlier in the attribute "wins".

RDFa Core 1.1 reverses that by allowing the second profile to override the first.

In practise, I don't think this difference is going to effect implementations at all, but it would be nice for RDFa 1.1 to say that multiple profiles in a single attribute should be processed in reverse order. Another possibility could be to reverse the order only in the XHTML host language, but I like that idea less.

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Related emails:

1. Re: Last Call Response to ISSUE-62: @prefix processing order (from ivan@w3.org on 2011-01-17)
2. Last Call Response to ISSUE-62: @prefix processing order (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2011-01-16)
3. Re: order within a @prefix (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-12-02)
4. Re: order within a @prefix (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-12-02)
5. Re: order within a @prefix (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-12-02)
6. Re: order within a @prefix (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-12-02)
7. RDFa WG telecon minutes for 2010-06-03 (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-06-07)
8. Re: Telecon Agenda - June 3rd 2010, 1400 UTC (from knud.moeller@deri.org on 2010-06-03)
9. Telecon Agenda - June 3rd 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-06-01)
10. Re: for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-05-29)
11. Re: for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-05-27)
12. Re: for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-05-27)
13. Re: for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-05-26)
14. for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from tai@g5n.co.uk on 2010-05-26)
15. Re: for telecon: ISSUE-23 @profile order (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-05-26)
16. Telecon Agenda - 27th May 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-05-24)
17. Re: RDFa WG telecon minutes for 2010-05-13 (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-05-15)
18. Re: RDFa WG telecon minutes for 2010-05-13 (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-05-15)
19. Re: ISSUE-23 (profile-order): @profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-05-07)
20. Re: ISSUE-23 (profile-order): @profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-05-07)
21. Re: ISSUE-23 (profile-order): @profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-05-07)
22. ISSUE-23 (profile-order): @profile order - RDFa Core 1.1 versus HTML 4.01 and XMDP [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-05-07)

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