Add the prefix URL for the structural semantics vocabulary #2734
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Thank you @mattgarrish, this is helpful. I have one question regarding the presence of https://idpf.github.io/epub-vocabs/package/meta/#sec-ref
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Ya, it looks like we've flipped between having www and not having it with the vocabularies. Even searching in 3.4 specification I can find some vocabulary URLs that have it and others that don't. I'm inclined to standardize them all without www. in them. It has no effect on the authoring side, so the only impact is on tools that want to expand the values to full URLs. Doing that, and for what purpose, is at your discretion, so it's not like changing xml namespaces where the wrong URL could lead to failed rendering. I've also only heard of Readium expanding the values, so if this works for you I don't think this change will have any wider impacts. |
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Yes, we went ahead and used the version without |
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And I've been forgetting that we wrote an algorithm in the reading systems specification last revision on how to obtain an expanded URL from a value: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-rs-34/#dfn-obtain-an-expanded-url That algorithm omits www from all the vocabularies, so the inconsistency is only in the authoring specification. Changing the references in the authoring document to match is more justifiable given that parsing expectation. (I really like it when changes are not seen as arbitrary!) Thanks again for pointing this out. |
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Merging this one, as well, as it's a minor and obvious clarification. |
Makes the idpf.org URL for expanding terms explicit in the document so there is no confusion about what to use now that the vocabulary is hosted under a W3C URL.
We should probably see about getting http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/structure/# to redirect to the new SSV location. It currently goes to the old idpf.github.io location. Even though that document has an obsolete message attached to it, it doesn't need to be accessible anymore.
A simple fix would be to temporarily unarchive that repository and replace that old document with a meta refresh directive so that readers are automatically bumped forward. The more complicated fix would be to get the old idpf.org htaccess file updated.
Fixes #2733
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