[whatwg] Support for RDFa in HTML5

Tue Aug 2 10:32:52 PDT 2011

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, aykut.sensoy at bild.de wrote:
>
> according to the W3C Specification:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/
> 
> 1. the xmlns attribute has been replaced with the prefix attribute
> 
> example: <html prefix="rdfa: http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#"<http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#%22>>
> 
> 2. the RDFa declaration must be defined with the version attribute
> 
> example: <html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1">
> 
> Complete example:
> <html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1" prefix="rdfa: http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#"<http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#%22>>
> 
> But both attributes are not supported in HTML5.
>
> I would like to know if these attributes will be part of HTML5 or is 
> there another valid method to integrate RDFa into HTML5?

Any specification can define extensions to HTML that are then allowed if 
you use that specification.

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