Re: FW: REV attribute on A and LINK elements

On 04/18/2014 09:06 AM, Shane McCarron wrote:
> To answer the basic question, it is conforming.  HTML+RDFa is an
> approved extension to HTML5.

To clear up future confusion, consider filing a new bug and pointing to 
the following comment:

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21341#c8

- Sam Ruby

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     The validator now accepts full RDFa 1.1 markup in HTML documents.
>
>     Mark Rogers <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>, 2014-04-17 08:29 -0500:
>
>      > I believe the validator used to flag using the REV attribute on A and
>      > LINK elements as obsolete, but no longer does this. The REV
>     attribute is
>      > still marked as non-conforming in the HTML5  CR and nightly
>     specs. The
>      > language looks the same in all the versions:
>      >
>      > "11.2 Non-conforming features"
>      > "The following attributes are obsolete (though the elements are
>     still part of the language), and must not be used by authors:
>      > "rev on a elements"
>      > "rev on link elements"
>      >
>      >
>     http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
>      >
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-html5-20140204/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
>      >
>     http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features
>      >
>      > Looking into this a bit deeper, I think there might be a mismatch
>     between the HTML5 CR and the RFDa recommendation (which says "RDFa
>     supports the use of @rel and @rev on any element.")
>      > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rdfa-core-20130822/#examples
>      > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rdfa-core-20130822/#A-rev
>      >
>      > There are also 4 tests in the conformance checker test suite that
>     use the REV attribute, with the naming indicating validators should
>     not flag a conformance error:
>      > html-rdfa/0006-isvalid.html
>      > html-rdfa/0007-isvalid.html
>      > html-rdfa/0009-isvalid.html
>      > html-rdfa/0010-isvalid.html
>      >
>      > So, what's the correct behaviour - is this conforming or
>     non-conforming?
>      >
>      > Best Regards
>      > Mark
>      >
>      > Mark Rogers - [email protected]
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