A syntax proposal: attributes for referenced links

[Fletcher T. Penney]

I am somewhat of a minimalist, and have generally been against  
Markdown syntax to include attributes.  But I have to admit that I  
don't see anything wrong with this approach.  It keeps the attributes  
out of the text, and out of the way.

I like it (for whatever that's worth...  ;)

Something similar could be done for images, for those who really want  
width and height attributes.


Fletcher

On Oct 11, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Choan C. Gálvez wrote:


> Hi all.

>

> I run an Spanish language blog where I usually link resources  

> written in English, so I'd like to markup (some) links this way:

>

>     <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/"

>     hreflang="en">Markdown</a>

>

> Would it be possible to extend the markdown syntax to allow this?  

> I'm thinking about reusing the reference link syntax, this way:

>

>     Blah blah [markdown][md] blah blah.

>

>     [md]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax  

> "Syntax description" hreflang=en

>

> This way, we could include any attribute in referenced links, for  

> example:

>

>     Blah blah [markdown][md] blah blah.

>

>     [md]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax  

> "Syntax description" hreflang=en class=anything lang=en

>

> (The lang attribute would translate both into lang="en" and  

> xml:lang="en".)

>

> What do you think about it?

>

> Regards,

> Choan

>

> PS: Hope my "English" makes some sense today.

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-- 
Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at alumni.duke.edu

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will  
the right answers come out?'
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas  
that could provoke such a question.
     - Charles Babbage


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