On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:09 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] but I still can't see there's
any practical alternative when elements with different semantics share
the same namespace.)
The practical alternative is to follow the definition that makes most
sense. And not try to implement both.
* XHTML2 and "XHTML5" have wildly different ways of indicating document
structure with headings.
How so?
* XHTML2 often uses role attributes to indicate semantics/functionality
where "XHTML5" supplies elements (or uses registered microformats). For
example, XHTML2 defines a role called "note" as "The content is
parenthetic or ancillary to the main content of the resource." "XHTML5"
defines an element <aside/> that "represents a section of a page that
consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around
the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that
content".
XHTML5 also has a semantic class name "note" for this very purpose which
can be used on <aside>, <p> and <span>.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
