- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:46:34 -0400
- To: XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org>
Le 05-08-30 à 10:12, Edward Lass a écrit :
> What benefit is gained by moving semantics from XHTML elements to
> XHTML
> attribute values? This strikes me as being very similar to using the
> style attribute and then arguing that we've now "separated"
> presentation
> from content. Well, it's still in the same place. It's just done a
> little differently.
>
I'm in favor of this separation for a long time too. Discussed at
length on this mailing list before. The fact that we blockquote/
quote, etc… is a encouragement to go this way and put semantics in
attributes.
The main benefits if you define that the semantics is defined by a
default profile of semantics and with a *well defined* extension
mechanism. It means that it could push things like:
- microformat
- semantic web
- lighten the process for new semantics element sets (books,
poetry, medical, etc.)
There's a lot of gain to do that. It means also that XHTML is
becoming a vehicle for many professions, more than developping your
own XML syntax, you will just designed a semantics Profile for XHTML.
Browsers would have a minimum to support. It would be easier to apply
GRDDL for extracting semantics.
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Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager
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