Andy said:
> I firmly belive that all DC-aware applications should consider all the
> following meta tag naming conventions as acceptable:
>
> DC.Creator
> dc.creator
> DC.creator
> DC:Creator
> dc:creator
> Dc:CrEaToR
> etc.
>
> and that our HTML encoding specs should reflect this, though we might
> still wish to indicate a preferred form. Given the more widespread usage
> of XML and XML namespaces, one could argue that 'dc:creator' should be the
> prefered form from now on.
I agree.
Slightly tangential to your proposal, but just for clarification.... Given
that the "DC."/"dc:"/etc part of the name attribute value is sort of
functioning as a "namespace prefix", even though syntactically it is just
part of a string, does this imply that the term "audience" (which is in a
separate namespace from the initial 15 terms) should be encoded in HTML
using a different prefix?
e.g. <meta name="dcterms:audience" value="....."/>
(with other variants accepted in the vein Andy described)
And if so, will it be easy to persuade a casual simple-DC-in-HTML (I suppose
I should say simple-DC-plus-new-terms-in-HTML) user to make that dc/dcterms
distinction?
Pete
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