- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:05:06 +0100
- To: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Robert Koberg wrote:
>I generate XHTML/JSP/Velocity pages from XSL and XML. One thing always
>seems clumsy to me: that is, why was something like an INPUT's checked
>attribute be set to "checked" and not true/false?
You can write SGML declarations such that for enumerated attribute
values only the value must be specified so you can write
<input ... checked> rather than
<input ... checked="checked">
Using true/false as in
<input ... true>
would look a bit odd, is more likely to clash with some other attribute
value and is more difficult to extend ("true", "false" and some third
value in the same value space is a bit odd, too).
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