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Bug 8981 - Conforming documents are not required to use RDFa constructs in a conforming way
Summary: Conforming documents are not required to use RDFa constructs in a conforming way
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
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#documen...
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Reported: 2010-02-14 06:42 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 06:42:35 UTC 
Section 3.1 Document Conformance defines the requirements for a conforming document. Somewhat surprisingly, this does not include a requirement that HTML+RDFa / XHTML+RDFa attributes are used in a way that is conforming with those specifications.
Comment 1 Manu Sporny 2010-02-16 04:23:44 UTC 
RDFA-SPEC-SECTIONS [document-conformance]
Comment 2 Manu Sporny 2010-05-03 02:59:36 UTC 
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Added new Document conformance requirement:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100502/#document-conformance

"All HTML5 elements and attributes must be used in a way that is conformant with [HTML5]. All RDFa attributes must be used in a way that is conformant with [RDFA-CORE] and this document."

Rationale:

Submitter is correct, we should make it clear that authors SHOULD use the combination of HTML5 and RDFa attributes for the purposes for which they were intended. I stopped short of stating MUST because if we would've made this requirement on the class="" attribute, Microformats would have been a non-conforming use of HTML4.
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:05 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1