Attribute references

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 01/09/05 at 4:19pm:

> > One advantage of this is that for something like classes, you can
> > define one class attribute defintion, and reuse it on as many
> > elements as you need.
> 
> A class is already something you define at one place and reuse later. 
> Because of this I tend to use small class names which are ideal when 
> you refer to them often. I see no use in having to define another small 
> name that will be a reference to the class name. I see this as a 
> reference to a reference.

Then, maybe, the dot-syntax could be supported as an alternate
style, specific to assigning classes. And then any name starting
with a dot would be illegal as a reference name.

So you could write this:

    ## This is my header  {.myclass}

to produce:

    <h2 class='myclass'>This is my header</h2>

Maybe.

-J.G.