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Bug 9874 - HTML+RDFa 1.1 in @version could be confusing
Summary: HTML+RDFa 1.1 in @version could be confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#conform...
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Reported: 2010-06-08 03:46 UTC by Grant Simpson
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
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Description Grant Simpson 2010-06-08 03:46:07 UTC
Since HTML5 does not have a version specification and RDFa does, <html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1" lang="en"> can be confusing with regard to understanding what is actually being versioned here. It seems to be that it's HTML (implied 5) plus RDFa 1.1 but without an explicitly stated HTML version number, it looks like the it is 1.1 of something called HTML+RDFa.

My recommendation would be to add a version number to the HTML part of the string: <html version="HTML5+RDFa 1.1" lang="en">
Comment 1 Manu Sporny 2010-12-04 19:02:23 UTC
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

RDFa Core 1.1 has dropped the @version attribute. As a result, HTML+RDFa specification is now version-less in its design:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-in-html-20101019/#sotd

Rationale:

As it became apparent that HTML5 was not going to include a @version attribute and be largely version-less, RDFa adopted the same approach. This has resulted in simpler implementations for RDFa. RDFa Core 1.1 now assumes that the data being parsed is the latest version of RDFa and does not switch between 1.0 and 1.1. That is, once RDFa 1.1 hits REC, all RDFa 1.0 documents will be parsed as 1.1 by default.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:14 UTC
mass-move component to LC1