[whatwg] RDFa

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> Again you're confusing HTTP URLs with URIs.
> 
> Using URIs as identifiers allows lots of identification schemes other 
> than HTTP, in particular ones that are not based on DNS, or that use 
> DNS, but include a timestamp to address the concern of "losing" a domain 
> name (tag URI scheme).

Sure, but most people use HTTP URIs anyway for namespaces.

You can use any URI or any system you want with class="". The key is just 
to make it unique enough that clashes won't happen. In practice, names 
like "dc:title" are actually quite unique enough. But people can use much 
more unique ones if desired, all the way to full URIs.

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