- From: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:19:15 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Robert Koberg wrote:
>
>>I generate XHTML/JSP/Velocity pages from XSL and XML. One thing always
>>seems clumsy to me: that is, why was something like an INPUT's checked
>>attribute be set to "checked" and not true/false?
>
>
> You can write SGML declarations such that for enumerated attribute
> values only the value must be specified so you can write
>
> <input ... checked> rather than
> <input ... checked="checked">
>
> Using true/false as in
>
> <input ... true>
It is probably a lack of understanding in SGML, but I don't understand
why you use true there and not checked.
Anyway, next I'll ask why is the following invalid?
<input ... checked="">
thanks,
-Rob
>
> would look a bit odd, is more likely to clash with some other attribute
> value and is more difficult to extend ("true", "false" and some third
> value in the same value space is a bit odd, too).
Received on Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:19:16 UTC