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[whatwg] template element?

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:28:35 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408281827360.8458@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> One thing that has come up in the context of WHAT WG but that I failed 
> to realize when I was designing a templating language is that you can 
> use attributes to add the template nature to elements of the target 
> language and reduce the overall number of elements.

Just so that nobody thinks we're claiming to have invented this: that idea 
was used by XForms long before Web Forms used it.

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