ISSUE-47: How should case-sensitivity be handled for terms specified via RDFa Profile documents?

case-sensitivity for terms

How should case-sensitivity be handled for terms specified via RDFa Profile documents?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDFa 1.1 Core

Raised by:

Manu Sporny

Opened on:

2010-10-18

Description:

From Gregg Kellogg:

The question regards case-insentive matching of terms to local term mappings. I understand that this is necessary for XHTML Vocabulary items, so that rel="next" is the same as rel ="NEXT", but this also has the consequence of not allowing the creation of terms from other vocabularies, where case sensitivity is essential. For example, I might want to create the following terms:

[ rdfa:term "agent"; rdfa:uri "http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#agent" ] .
[ rdfa:term "Agent"; rdfa:uri "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent" ] .

As case-sensitivity of URIs, at least, is important in RDF, you could consider that case-sensitifity of terms would also be important, to allow use cases such as I just described. Certainly, I could get around this by changing the term name, but it makes it easy for someone to accidentally include two different terms that differ only in their case.

Full reference is here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/2010Oct/0098.html

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1. Re: RDFa Core Last Call telecon notes (from Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl on 2010-10-21)
2. RDFa Core Last Call telecon notes (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-20)
3. PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-47: case-sensitivity for terms (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-18)
4. Telecon Agenda - October 21st 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-18)
5. ISSUE-47 (case-sensitivity for terms): How should case-sensitivity be handled for terms specified via RDFa Profile documents? [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-10-18)

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