Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion

2008/6/5 Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>:

> Elliotte...all I'm saying is that just because we have this rather
> complex underlying representation of namespaces in XML, doesn't mean
> that we have to match that at the level of the syntax.
>
> So if we wanted to define an XML language such that this:
>
>  <foo aria-bah="banana" />
>
> was equivalent to the following (at an infoset level, but shown here
> as more syntax):
>
>  <foo xmlns:aria="http://..." aria:bah="banana" />
>
> then we could.


How much more of XML would you want to pervert?
XML wins because it's an imperfect 'standard' (rec)

If you want to fork it for your own purposes please do so on your own,
not via W3C, espcially WAI


Please don't keep saying we when you speak only for yourself.




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