Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com> wrote: > I understand that. I was asking why. HTML (as standardised) adopted an existing idiom for flags. Attribute minimisation is gone in XML, but the legacy remains (and must do for UA compatibility). > What I am trying to say is that it makes generating XHTML output > clumsy/redundant because a source XML used in an XSL transformation to a > templating language for runtime cannot look like Well that's a failing of the templating language rather than XHTML as such. A templating language that aims at being helpful for XML should provide a mechanism for inclusion/exclusion of an attribute. For example in PXTL: <input type="radio" checked="checked{?px_if isChecked?}"/> There are after all many other constructs in non-XML-native templating languages like JSP that can result in source templates that are not well-formed. -- Andrew Clover mailto:and@doxdesk.com http://www.doxdesk.com/Received on Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:38:23 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 6 April 2009 12:59:27 GMT