Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Marc Portier wrote:

none,

just had one spontanuos thought:
maybe we can reduce typing somewhat if we add those attributes by using a different namespace (rather then, the default one which seems to be so commong for attributes)


(possibly reusing 'fd', or introducing 'fa' for form-atributes)

your sample would become:
<fd:field id="foo" fa:bar="baz">
...
</fd:field>

as said: just a thought



Interesting thought. It surely saves some keystrokes, but introduces yet another namespace in CForms, and I'm afraid it may confuse users.



hm, if that is the only counter-argument, then you could reuse the fd namespace, no?


after all you will be doing that now too with fd:attribute/@name,@value

So I think I'll favour clarity to terseness (remember, it's one of the 10 design goals of XML [1]).

Sylvain

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-origin-goals


yeah, I'm very aware (and that's why I had the thought :-))

don't you get enough of all this <>'"&/typing?

-marc= (thinking about filing a patent on new xml-facilitating keyboard layouts :-))
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