- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:38:04 -0500
- To: Nicholas Stimpson <nicholas.stimpson@ntlworld.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Nicholas Stimpson <nicholas.stimpson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Or if that's not possible, could an existing empty element be overloaded to > replace itemref? Both "link" and "param" seem to check out in the live DOM > viewer as possibles, providing that one encountering them the parser has > already reached the parsing-the-body mode. Link is already being overloaded > for the itemprop attribute so extending that with an itemref attribute > doesn't seem a huge leap. e.g. instead of > > <itemref refid="x"> > > have > > <link itemref="x"> This seems promising. New void elements are *always* going to be a problem forever in HTML (one of the things XHTML got right, I think), since there's no way to differentiate them from new non-void elements. We can at least avoid it here while maintaining some consistency. ~TJ
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