ISSUE-233

use other URI-carrying attributes in HTML+RDFa

State:

OPEN

Product:

RDFa

Raised by:

Ben Adida

Opened on:

2009-09-02

Description:

Dorian Taylor:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Aug/0005.html

"""
existing attributes in the markup intended to carry URIs, specifically
@data in <object> and @cite in <q>, <blockquote>, <ins> and <del>. Now
that I think of it, however, a similar protocol may apply to
attributes like @longdesc in <img>, <frame> and <iframe> and @action
in <form>.

What these attributes have in common is that they follow the pattern
of specifying resource objects like @href or @resource, with the
exception of object/@data which I read to be equivalent to @src (or
@about). While the bulk of them have additional meaning than just a
URI reference (I excluded @usemap because its meaning is extremely
narrow), I am optimistic that they could be used in lieu of
RDFa-specific attributes without any ambiguity. The purpose of doing
so (as I read the purpose of RDFa itself) use a document's existing
data to express additional (not conflicting) semantics.

As such, it would be totally reasonable to say:

<q rel="dcterms:references" cite="#benjamin-franklin"
property="rdf:value">Remember that time is money.</q>

to mean:

<> rdf:value "Remember that time is money."; dcterms:references
<#benjamin-franklin> .

...

"""

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-233: use other URI-carrying attributes in HTML+RDFa (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2009-09-02)

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