Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

[Andrea Censi]

On 1/4/07, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> Le 2007-01-01 à 19:02, Andrea Censi a écrit :



> > Default ALD for classes of elements. For example, an header of

> > level 2 inherits automatically the attributes of {header2}, if it

> > is defined.

>

> I don't see the point for such a feature. Applying the same

> attributes to all elements of the same name is a bad markup style,

> especially if it's a class attribute like in your example. If the

> reason you do this is to facilitate styling, why not just create a

> rule "h1" or "p" in your stylesheet that applies to all elements with

> that name?


Ok, let's take it out. That is, in fact, a better solution to the
problem I was trying to solve.


> Also, your new proposal for a span element:

>

>      [special words]{#myspan}

>

> seems to me even more ambiguous than the previous one using braces

> instead of square brakets since John Gruber wants to introduce the

> [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a

> future version of Markdown.


I did not know this (I'm still working on my clairvoyance).

Any other idea about a syntax for SPANs?
Or do you think it does not matter at all?

Consider the spec. example:
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html)

     As <CITE>Harry S. Truman</CITE> said,
     <Q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</Q>

     More information can be found in
     <CITE>[ISO-0000]</CITE>.

Could be expressed this way:

     As /Harry S. Truman/{c} said,
     /The buck stops here/{q}.

     More information can be found in
     /[ISO-0000]/{c}.

     ....

     {c}: html-el=CITE
     {q}: html-el=Q lang=en-us

This seems useful to do.
(whatever the SPAN syntax is)

-- 
Andrea Censi
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