Re: [XHTMLMod] global attributes (PR#9640)

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:03:21 +0200, Steven Pemberton  
<steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
> So when you are building a language with Modularization, you have to  
> explicitely state that you are supporting bi-directional text. All W3C  
> family-members of XHTML do this.

Given that the feature is also available in some form in Unicode this  
doesn't make much sense to me. I also don't really understand why such a  
feature should be optional.


> We feel that just because the DOM includes an attribute on an element,  
> that doesn't automatically imply it should be exposed in the markup.  
> There are many things in the DOM that are not.

When you serialize the DOM back to markup this creates problems.


> But in any case, as I said in my earlier email, it is not the aim of  
> this revision of Modularization to change the markup languages using it,  
> even if we felt it was a good idea to add dir to the above elements.

target="" is one thing which has been added, I don't really see why this  
can't be considered.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Tuesday, 17 October 2006 23:12:39 UTC