On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote: > Sorry for reviving such an old thread (almost 3 years now!) but I recently > came across a huge use case for CAS: Semantic data! Namely, Microdata and > RDFa. They’re both applied using attributes, which makes them super tedious > to add to existing content. > I like this idea! You might get additional feedback for this from the SWIG community on the semantic-web list. GRDDL is (was?) a very similar, but much more complex, concept that uses RDF/XML and XSLT (not a very well-liked combination by myself or generally): <http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/> Another application would be many of the applications of ARIA attributes (surely I can't be the only one who's thought ARIA shouldn't be embedded in markup since it's not conveying actual data). In both cases, they're properties annotating/semantically enhancing data, where cycles generally shouldn't occur. That is if cycles are a problem at all. CSS doesn't seem to have any issue when it creates pesudo-elements, I don't forsee too many issues with pesudo-attributes. That is, I don't see any reason this would need to modify the DOM; but could instead expose a "data DOM" that ARIA and RDFa would use; the same way Web browsers render a "visual DOM" of sorts containing pesudo-elements. Austin Wright.
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