Re: ISSUE-24: Proposal for dealing with case-insensitive terms in the XHTML vocabulary

I believe this definition is consistent with that one for values without 
colons (non-CURIEs, or TERMs in RDFa Core 1.1).  For values with colons, 
we disagree that values of rel are always lower case since mixed case is 
essential for supporting our use cases, as well as supporting other uses.


On 7/14/2010 9:50 AM, Felix Sasaki wrote:
> Sorry for lurcking, a clarification question ...
>
> 2010/7/14 Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk <mailto:tai@g5n.co.uk>>
>
>     On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:01:52 -0500
>     Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com <mailto:shane@aptest.com>> wrote:
>
>     > In XHTML+RDFa 1.1 we should say:
>     >
>     >     When referencing TERMs in the vocabulary at
>     > http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab, TERMs must be mapped to lower
>     > case.
>
>     Does this also cover the case of the empty prefix? According to my
>     reading of XHTML+RDFa 1.0, given the following:
>
>            rel="Next"
>            rel=":Next"
>
>     The first is mapped to lower-case; the second is treated
>     case-sensitively. This is because the former is a term and the latter
>     is a CURIE.
>
> At 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#attribute-values , values 
> of "rel" are described as always lower case. How does that (does it at 
> all?) relate to what you describe above?
> Thanks for the clarification in advance,
> Felix
>
>
>     I suggest we retain this distinction, as there do exist mixed-case
>     terms defined in the XHTML vocabulary (though they're not used by RDFa
>     currently).
>
>     Ivan wrote:
>
>     > 2. in RDFa+XHTML (and I presume in RDFa+HTML5) there is a a default
>     > @vocab, namely http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab# and, if this
>     is the
>     > one in effect, then terms are interpreted in a case insensitive way,
>     > ie, terms must be mapped on lower case.
>
>     Personally I'd ditch that too -- you get too many junk results. Better
>     to say that the default vocabulary in (X)HTML+RDFa is null.
>
>     Otherwise you'll end up with having to deal with rel values from
>     Microformats, etc. The problem with that it that Microformats have
>     their own ways of determining what the "subject" is for a rel;
>     applying
>     RDF's @about/@src/chaining rules doesn't work well.
>
>     To handle the case of rel="next", rel="prev", etc define a default
>     *profile* for XHTML+RDFa, and have that profile define those terms
>     case-insensitively. (The profile SHOULD be hard-coded in XHTML+RDFa
>     parsers; authors MAY include an explicit @profile attribute
>     referencing
>     the default profile.)
>
>     This means that parsers need to internally allow profiles to define
>     both case-sensitive and case-insensitive terms, though we may decide
>     not that profiles other than the XHTML vocab are not privileged to
>     declare case-insensitive terms.
>
>     This solution allows us to pick up "our" @rel terms but skim safely
>     over the @rel terms used by Microformats, Javascript libraries, etc.
>
>     --
>     Toby A Inkster
>     <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>>
>     <http://tobyinkster.co.uk <http://tobyinkster.co.uk/>>
>
>

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