Article:		XHTML is the Most Important XML Vocabulary
Subject:		Wrong usage of the 'class' attribute on
Date:		2003-05-23 02:21:17
From:		J D
The XHTML2 draft spec linked to specifies <blockcode> as only using the 'Common' attribute collection (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml2-20030506/mod-block-text.html#edef_block-text_blockcode), ie 'class' in this case is for presentation (style) purposes only. I'd speculate that it's only used in the example to illustrate how you might differentiate code samples of different types(presentationally). It should perhaps explicitly say that in the spec...

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• Wrong usage of the 'class' attribute on
  2003-05-23 08:44:04 Kendall Clark
  
  JD,

  
  Good catch! You're exactly right, of course. I had meant to include a paragraph about how, in addition to presentational "class" attribute, blockcode should also have an attribute indicating, by way of a URI or URN, the kind of programming language contained within the block. But I couldn't think of a good name for this attribute...

  
  Thanks.

  
  Kendall Clark
  
  

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    2010-07-12 04:03:21 ariakerry
    
    Very nice article. I read your XML-Deviant column last summer and it really helped me understand how important XHTML is.
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  • Wrong usage of the 'class' attribute on
    2003-05-29 09:54:34 Kurt George Gjerde
    
    What about a type attribute? As in <blockcode type="text/perl">...
    
    
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      2010-07-12 04:17:43 ariakerry
      
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