Re: attributes as virtual tags

The svg thing is solved by doing things like

*[fill] {
  fill: attr(fill);
}

Rikkert Koppes

Pascal Germroth schreef:
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>> As attributes are considered child nodes of an element, this kinda makes
>> sense.
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>> This also makes some sense in a rdf framework where
>>
>> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar" [...] />
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>> is the same as
>>
>> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar" [...] />
>>     
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> Well, I think this is a basic problem of XML: attributes, elements and
> content of attributes[*] are not considered equivalent. It should not be
> solved by CSS, it requires a new version of XML and everything
> surrounding it (like XPath and the DOM)...
>
> *] like in SVG: <e style="fill: foo;" /> and <e fill="foo" /> mean the same.
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> In the meantime I would just use XSL-T, being far more migthier than CSS
> anyway, for this purpose.
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> - --
> Pascal
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Received on Thursday, 21 June 2007 14:39:18 UTC