Mark rdf:HTML and rdf:XMLLiteral as non-normative
authorMarkus Lanthaler <mail@markus-lanthaler.com>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:05:09 +0100
changeset 1610 1766898feb84
parent 1609 105af5672a48
child 1611 3cde0ca96344
Mark rdf:HTML and rdf:XMLLiteral as non-normative
rdf-concepts/index.html
--- a/rdf-concepts/index.html	Mon Dec 16 16:44:49 2013 +0100
+++ b/rdf-concepts/index.html	Mon Dec 16 17:05:09 2013 +0100
@@ -136,16 +136,10 @@
   </section>
 
   <section id="sotd">
-
-    <p>The following features are at risk and may be changed from normative to non-normative:</p>
-
-    <ul>
-      <li><a href="#at-risk-html">The <code>rdf:HTML</code> datatype may be made non-normative</a></li>
-      <li><a href="#at-risk-xmlliteral">The <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> datatype may be made non-normative</a></li>
-    </ul>
-
-    <p>This document is a part of the RDF 1.1 document suite.  The RDF Working Group welcomes comments and reports of implementations in general, but given the nature of this document (as a conceptual overview), the group not expecting to track implementations of this document on its own.</p>
-
+    <p>This document is a part of the RDF 1.1 document suite. The RDF Working Group
+      welcomes comments and reports of implementations in general, but given the
+      nature of this document (as a conceptual overview), the group is not
+      expecting to track implementations of this document on its own.</p>
   </section>
 </div>
 
@@ -887,8 +881,7 @@
     [[!XMLSCHEMA11-2]]. Any datatype definition that conforms
     to this abstraction MAY be used in RDF, even if not defined
     in terms of XML Schema. RDF re-uses many of the XML Schema
-    built-in datatypes,
-    and provides two additional built-in datatypes,
+    built-in datatypes, and defines two additional non-normative datatypes,
     <code><a>rdf:HTML</a></code> and <code><a>rdf:XMLLiteral</a></code>.
     The list of datatypes supported by an implementation is determined
     by its <a>recognized datatype IRIs</a>.</p>
@@ -1064,142 +1057,117 @@
 </section>
 
 
-<section id="section-html">
+<section id="section-html" class="informative">
     <h3>The <code>rdf:HTML</code> Datatype</h3>
 
-    <div class="issue atrisk" id="at-risk-html">
-      <p>The <code>rdf:HTML</code> datatype is at risk of being changed from normative to non-normative
-        because the definitions in [[DOM4]] and thus the lexical-to-value mapping are not yet stable.
-        Consequently interoperability can not be guaranteed at this point in time. Please send feedback
-        to <a href="mailto:public-rdf-comments@w3.org">public-rdf-comments@w3.org</a>.</p>
-    </div>
-
     <p>RDF provides for HTML content as a possible <a>literal value</a>.
-    This allows markup in literal values. Such content is indicated
-    in an <a>RDF graph</a> using a <a>literal</a> whose <a>datatype</a>
-    is a special built-in datatype <code><dfn>rdf:HTML</dfn></code>.
-    This datatype is defined as follows:</p>
+      This allows markup in literal values. Such content is indicated
+      in an <a>RDF graph</a> using a <a>literal</a> whose <a>datatype</a>
+      is set to <code><dfn>rdf:HTML</dfn></code>. This datatype is defined
+      as follows:</p>
 
     <dl>
-    <dt>An IRI denoting this datatype</dt>
-    <dd>is <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#HTML</code>.</dd>
-
-    <dt>The lexical space</dt>
-    <dd>is the set of Unicode [[UNICODE]] strings.</dd>
-
-    <dt>The value space</dt>
-    <dd>is a set of DOM
-    <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-    nodes [[!DOM4]]. Two
-    <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-    nodes <em>A</em> and <em>B</em> are considered equal if and only if
-    the DOM method
-    <code><em>A</em>.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-isequalnode">isEqualNode</a>(<em>B</em>)</code>
-    [[!DOM4]] returns <code>true</code>.</dd>
+      <dt>The IRI denoting this datatype</dt>
+      <dd>is <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#HTML</code>.</dd>
 
-    <dt>The lexical-to-value mapping</dt>
-    <dd>
-      <p>Each member of the lexical space is associated with the result
-      of applying the following algorithm:</p>
-      <ul>
-        <li>Let <code>domnodes</code> be the list of
-        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#node">DOM nodes</a> [[!DOM4]]
-        that result from applying the
-        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#parsing-html-fragments">HTML fragment parsing algorithm</a> [[!HTML5]]
-        to the input string, without a context element.</li>
-        <li>Let <code>domfrag</code> be a DOM
+      <dt>The lexical space</dt>
+      <dd>is the set of Unicode [[UNICODE]] strings.</dd>
+
+      <dt>The value space</dt>
+      <dd>is a set of DOM
         <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-        [[!DOM4]] whose <code>childNodes</code> attribute is equal to
-        <code>domnodes</code></li>
-        <li>Return <code>domfrag.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-normalize">normalize</a>()</code></li>
-      </ul>
-    </dd>
+        nodes [[DOM4]]. Two
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
+        nodes <em>A</em> and <em>B</em> are considered equal if and only if
+        the DOM method
+        <code><em>A</em>.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-isequalnode">isEqualNode</a>(<em>B</em>)</code>
+        [[DOM4]] returns <code>true</code>.</dd>
+
+      <dt>The lexical-to-value mapping</dt>
+      <dd>
+        <p>Each member of the lexical space is associated with the result
+          of applying the following algorithm:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Let <code>domnodes</code> be the list of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#node">DOM nodes</a> [[DOM4]]
+            that result from applying the
+            <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#parsing-html-fragments">HTML fragment parsing algorithm</a> [[HTML5]]
+            to the input string, without a context element.</li>
+          <li>Let <code>domfrag</code> be a DOM
+            <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a> [[DOM4]]
+            whose <code>childNodes</code> attribute is equal to <code>domnodes</code></li>
+            <li>Return <code>domfrag.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-normalize">normalize</a>()</code></li>
+        </ul>
+      </dd>
     </dl>
 
     <p class="note" id="note-html">
-    Any language annotation (<code>lang="…"</code>) or
-    XML namespaces (<code>xmlns</code>) desired in the HTML content
-    must be included explicitly in the HTML literal. Relative URLs
-    in attributes such as <code>href</code> do not have a well-defined
-    base URL and are best avoided.
-    RDF applications may use additional equivalence relations,
-    such as that which relates an <code>xsd:string</code> with an
-    <code>rdf:HTML</code> literal corresponding to a single text node
-    of the same string.</p>
+      Any language annotation (<code>lang="…"</code>) or
+      XML namespaces (<code>xmlns</code>) desired in the HTML content
+      must be included explicitly in the HTML literal. Relative URLs
+      in attributes such as <code>href</code> do not have a well-defined
+      base URL and are best avoided.
+      RDF applications may use additional equivalence relations,
+      such as that which relates an <code>xsd:string</code> with an
+      <code>rdf:HTML</code> literal corresponding to a single text node
+      of the same string.</p>
 </section>
 
-<section id="section-XMLLiteral">
+<section id="section-XMLLiteral" class="informative">
     <h3>The <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> Datatype</h3>
 
-    <div class="issue atrisk" id="at-risk-xmlliteral">
-      <p>The <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> datatype is at risk of being changed from normative to non-normative
-        because the definitions in [[DOM4]] and thus the lexical-to-value mapping are not yet stable.
-        Consequently interoperability can not be guaranteed at this point in time. Please send feedback
-        to <a href="mailto:public-rdf-comments@w3.org">public-rdf-comments@w3.org</a>.</p>
-    </div>
-
     <p>RDF provides for XML content as a possible <a>literal value</a>.
-    Such content is indicated in an <a>RDF graph</a> using a <a>literal</a>
-    whose <a>datatype</a> is a special built-in datatype
-    <code><dfn>rdf:XMLLiteral</dfn></code>, which is defined as follows:</p>
+      Such content is indicated in an <a>RDF graph</a> using a <a>literal</a>
+      whose <a>datatype</a> is set to <code><dfn>rdf:XMLLiteral</dfn></code>.
+      This datatype is defined as follows:</p>
 
     <dl>
-      <dt id="XMLLiteral-uri">An IRI denoting this <a>datatype</a></dt>
-
-      <dd>is
-      <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral</code>.</dd>
+      <dt id="XMLLiteral-uri">The IRI denoting this <a>datatype</a></dt>
+      <dd>is <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#XMLLiteral</code>.</dd>
 
       <dt id="XMLLiteral-lexical-space">The <a>lexical space</a></dt>
-
       <dd>is the set of all strings which are well-balanced, self-contained
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-content">XML content</a>
-      [[!XML10]]; and for which embedding between an arbitrary
-      XML start tag and an end tag yields a document conforming to
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/">XML Namespaces</a>
-      [[!XML-NAMES]].</dd>
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-content">XML content</a>
+        [[XML10]]; and for which embedding between an arbitrary
+        XML start tag and an end tag yields a document conforming to
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/">XML Namespaces</a>
+        [[XML-NAMES]].</dd>
 
       <dt id="XMLLiteral-value-space">The <a>value space</a></dt>
-
-      <dd>is a set of DOM
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-      nodes [[!DOM4]]. Two
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-      nodes <em>A</em> and <em>B</em> are considered equal
-      if and only if the DOM method
-      <code><em>A</em>.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-isequalnode">isEqualNode</a>(<em>B</em>)</code>
-      returns <code>true</code>.</dd>
+        <dd>is a set of DOM
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
+        nodes [[DOM4]]. Two
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
+        nodes <em>A</em> and <em>B</em> are considered equal if and only if the DOM method
+        <code><em>A</em>.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-isequalnode">isEqualNode</a>(<em>B</em>)</code>
+        returns <code>true</code>.</dd>
 
       <dt id="XMLLiteral-mapping">The <a>lexical-to-value mapping</a></dt>
-
       <dd>
-      <p>Each member of the lexical space is associated with the result
-      of applying the following algorithm:</p>
-      <ul>
-      <li>Let <code>domfrag</code> be a DOM
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
-      node [[!DOM4]] corresponding to the input string</li>
-      <li>Return <code>domfrag.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-normalize">normalize</a>()</code></li>
-      </ul></dd>
+        <p>Each member of the lexical space is associated with the result of applying the following algorithm:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Let <code>domfrag</code> be a DOM
+            <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#interface-documentfragment"><code>DocumentFragment</code></a>
+            node [[DOM4]] corresponding to the input string</li>
+          <li>Return <code>domfrag.<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-normalize">normalize</a>()</code></li>
+        </ul>
+      </dd>
 
       <dt id="XMLLiteral-canonical">The canonical mapping</dt>
       <dd>defines a
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#dt-canonical-mapping">canonical lexical form</a>
-      [[!XMLSCHEMA11-2]] for each member of the value space.
-      The <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> canonical mapping is the
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-exclusive-XML-canonicalization-method">exclusive
-      XML canonicalization method</a> (<em>with comments, with empty
-      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-InclusiveNamespaces-PrefixList">
-      InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList</a></em>) [[!XML-EXC-C14N]].
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#dt-canonical-mapping">canonical lexical form</a> [[XMLSCHEMA11-2]]
+        for each member of the value space. The <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> canonical mapping is the
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-exclusive-XML-canonicalization-method">exclusive XML canonicalization method</a>
+        (<em>with comments, with empty
+        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xml-exc-c14n-20020718/#def-InclusiveNamespaces-PrefixList">InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList</a></em>)
+        [[XML-EXC-C14N]].</dd>
+    </dl>
 
-      </dl>
-
-      <p class="note">Any XML namespace declarations (<code>xmlns</code>),
-      language annotation (<code>xml:lang</code>) or base URI
-      declarations (<code>xml:base</code>) desired in the
-      XML content must be included explicitly in the XML literal.
-      Note that some concrete RDF syntaxes may define mechanisms
-      for inheriting them from the context
-      (e.g., <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#parseTypeLiteralPropertyElt"><code>@parseType="literal"</code></a>
+    <p class="note">Any XML namespace declarations (<code>xmlns</code>),
+      language annotation (<code>xml:lang</code>) or base URI declarations
+      (<code>xml:base</code>) desired in the XML content must be included
+      explicitly in the XML literal. Note that some concrete RDF syntaxes
+      may define mechanisms for inheriting them from the context (e.g.,
+      <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#parseTypeLiteralPropertyElt"><code>@parseType="literal"</code></a>
       in RDF/XML [[RDF-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR]]).</p>
 </section>
 
@@ -1388,6 +1356,7 @@
     <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-rdf11-concepts-20131105/">5 November 2013 Candidate Recommendation (CR)</a>.</p>
 
   <ul>
+    <li>2013-12-16: Make <code>rdf:HTML</code> and <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> non-normative</li>
     <li>2013-12-16: Update acknowledgments</li>
     <li>2013-12-12: Editorial changes in response to a review by
       <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0084.html">Thomas Baker</a></li>