Re: Simple template-based editing

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Bert Bos wrote:
>>And, as I said, you can have templates for anything, not just for HTML. 
>>An attribute in HTML would solve only the HTML case.
> 
> If multiple languages are a concern, then a global attribute (as Daniel 
> suggested) would be one option.

A global attribute could work but then we're down the namespace rathole 
once again :)

> (SVG also has an attribute for this, FWIW, though SVG is a 
> presentational language rather than a semantic language.)

SVG's 'editable' attribute is only for text fields, it does not handle 
any markup insertion of any kind (nor should it).

FWIW, a presentational language is just a language capturing the 
semantics of geometry and colours :)

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Senior Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/

Received on Friday, 30 September 2005 09:53:48 UTC