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Based on the conversation between Tony and Jonas at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010May/0034.html Suggest that the text at the end of the section "Embedding custom non-visible data" be changed to: JavaScript libraries may use the custom data attributes, as they are considered to be part of the page on which they are used. Authors of libraries that are reused by many authors are encouraged to include their name in the attribute names, to reduce the risk of clashes. Library authors are also encouraged to make their name customizable by the page author in order to resolve clashes between libraries (including different versions of the same library). For example, a library called "DoQuery" could use attribute names like data-doquery-range, and a library called "jJo" could use attributes names like data-jjo-range. The jJo library could also provide clash resolution through an API call like jjo.setDataPrefix("jjo2"), after which the previous example would change to data-jjo2-range. [The last sentence of each paragraph is new.]
This seems reasonable in principle. I'll look at it more carefully once I'm back to going through the bugs (I'm dealing with the backlog of e-mails first, since some had been waiting for far too long).
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Thanks.