[whatwg] Alternative method of declaring prefixes in RDFa

[Manu Sporny]

Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike at w3.org>, 2009-01-19 17:40 +0900:
> 
>> Manu Sporny <msporny at digitalbazaar.com>, 2009-01-18 19:18 -0500:
>>
>>> prefix="foaf=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
>> URL for an archived mailing-list discussion about it?
> 
> OK, I found this:
> 
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Jan/thread.html#msg74
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Jan/0074.html

I believe that the thread started here, @prefix is a small part of the
conversation:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Sep/0001.html

... it's fairly involved, and a good bit has changed since the
discussion back in September. The goal, though, is to provide a non-XML
mechanism for declaring CURIE prefixes.

-- manu

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