- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 18:08:05 -0700
- To: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
At 05:51 PM 7/9/2001 , Thanasis Kinias wrote: >Kynn, >I'm curious about your usage here: I've not seen attribute names written >before with the 'commercial at' as a prefix. I associate this prefix with >arrays (as in Perl) -- what's the origin of using it for SGML/XML attributes? Simple answer: XSLT. In XSLT, an "@" sign is how you indicate that you're talking about an attribute, not an element. (I first saw Sean Palmer using this, thought it was useful, and immediately stole it from him.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Technical Developer Liaison, Reef http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/ Online Instructor, Accessible Web Design http://kynn.com/+d201
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