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Bug 23567 - URI inconsistency in XHTML vocabulary space
Summary: URI inconsistency in XHTML vocabulary space
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: public-rdfa-wg
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Reported: 2013-10-19 03:16 UTC by Krizalys
Modified: 2013-10-22 16:57 UTC (History)
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Description Krizalys 2013-10-19 03:16:16 UTC 
(Please note that this issue affects the w3.org website rather than the HTML+RDFa specification)

The documented URI for the default XHTML vocabulary space is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#
For example, this page itself states: "This document describes the items that are available in the default XHTML vocabulary space: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#."

However, this URL is a permanent redirect to  http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/# (note the trailing slash).

This issue triggers some warnings on link validators, such as the one provided by the W3C itself. For an example, see this validation result: http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.opensourcecms.com%2Fdrupal%2F&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check

As many third-party implementations already rely on the documented URI, the safest approach to solve the issue would be to make sure that the W3C website does not redirect when visiting http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#
Comment 1 ivan Herman 2013-10-22 16:57:46 UTC 
The W3C server has been changed accordingly