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Bug 8994 - HTML+RDFa will process attributes in the XHML namespace as well as the null namespace; XHTML+RDFa does not
Summary: HTML+RDFa will process attributes in the XHML namespace as well as the null n...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-02-14 07:37 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 07:37:13 UTC 
Section 6.2 says:

"For each RDFa attribute in the [attributes] list that has a [prefix]] with no value or a [prefix] with the value of http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml, extract and use the [normalized value]."

However, XHTML+RDFa does not seem to allow the RDFa attributes to be namespace-prefixed at all, they are only processed when in a null namespace:

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/#rdfa-attributes

Please remove this inconsistency.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 07:37:36 UTC 
Section 7.2 has the same problem.
Comment 2 Manu Sporny 2010-02-16 04:31:19 UTC 
RDFA-SPEC-SECTIONS [processing-rdfa-attributes]
Comment 3 Manu Sporny 2010-05-05 03:16:40 UTC 
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Removed processing of RDFa attributes in the XHTML namespace.

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100504/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&f=h

Rationale:

I don't believe that it was necessary to process values in the XHTML namespace. Then again, I'm a novice when it comes to these things... Maciej probably knows what he's talking about. :)
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:16 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1