- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:01:16 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, David Dorward wrote: > HTML was designed before XML, XSLT and XHTML were, so it didn't take > into consideration any design implications it would cause for them. That's correct, but in this issue, it was also designed without really thinking in SGML terms. "Boolean attributes" (which are even called that way in HTML specifications) don't fit into SGML philosophy, although they were formally retrofitted into SGML formalism. It would be have been much more SGML-like to have an attribute that takes two values, like "checked" and "unchecked", the latter being the default, and the attribute name being 'status' for example. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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