Quoting Rimantas Liubertas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So, kidding aside, invalid is invalid.
Right, as far as generating completely new invalid elements/nodes, I'll agree completely. However, in my view it gets muddy when we're talking about just adding additional attributes to an existing node. Once the XHTML has been loaded into the browser and the DOM been built internally, I don't see a major problem with creating new *attributes* for each of the nodes, either as a way of storing script information related to that node (i.e. use it as a variable container) or as a pragmatic way to get certain non-compliant things to work properly (for instance, that whole autocompletion debacle that I think sparked this separate thread). Should it be done at all? Possibly not, but it's "less evil" in my mind than doing horrid things like converting a valid document into a completely invalid mess with wrongly nested elements, unclosed tags, etc -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
