- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:56:10 -0400
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > >>> Then would you want different markup for book titles, movie titles, >>> play titles, song titles, etc? Or would you just expect the script >>> to search IMDB for anything marked up with <cite>? >> >> Again, I don't really know. I could see a use case for a "type" >> attribute (as was suggested earlier in this thread), but that seems >> like a slippery slope. Suggestions? > > If we go with something like a TYPE attribute, I hope we can give it a > better name. However, hiding semantics inside the value of an attribute > is a poor markup design in humble opinion. (Although it also has some > advantages.) It's subclassing: the general is sufficient, the specific better. Many markup languages use the design, and in this case, I think it's necessary. ~fantasai
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