- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:26:31 -0600
- To: shelby@coolpage.com
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Shelby Moore wrote: > Ian Hickson gave an example of rendering the text within an <a>text</a> > hyperlink tag as a date, and then in later post he suggested the ability > to render a <select> as a map of countries: ... > For example, > transform <a> into <adate> or <a type="date>, and <select> into > <mapselect> or <select type="map">. OK. So say I have a <select type="map"> as a result of XSLT. I'm still trying to render a map of countries (from which the user can _select_ a country). Whither from now? The idea of XBL-like things is that given semantic markup like <select type="select-a-country"> (which clearly says what we're selecting), one can attach different presentations (a dropdown list of countries, an imagemap for which clicking on a country selects it, a set of radio buttons, one radio button per country, etc). Note that producing these with server-side XSLT would actually obscure the semantics (those being simply "select a country"). Producing these with client-side XSLT is possible, and very similar in spirit to the XBL approach as far as I can tell. So I don't see what the big argument is about, frankly... -Boris
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