Ian Hickson a écrit :
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Cyril Concolato wrote:
In Section 2.6 "The inherited element" and Section 2.7 "The xbl:inherits
attribute" use the same root 'inherit' while they are about different
behaviors: - "inherited" is related to the extends attribute and to
inheritance - "inherits" is related to attribute forwarding. Please
rename the second to "forwards" or something less confusing.
I spoke with David Hyatt about this and we agree that xbl:inherits
clashing with inherited/extends is a bit confusing. We don't really like
the idea of calling it 'xbl:forwards', though, because that is easier to
typo than 'inherits' for some reason. I'd rather have xbl:inherits and the
resulting minor confusion than xbl:forwards and the resulting typos.
Do you have any better suggestions for an alternative name?
Why not "xbl:use" or "xbl:copy" ?
Could you explain why the WG prefered specifying the attribute
'inherits' with a specific syntax (difficult) to parse and not an
element with sub-elements like the following ?
<forwards>
<attribute name="[bound element's attribute]"/>
<attribute name="xbl:text">some text</attribute>
</forwards>
Elements are harder to process (you have to handle erroneous tree
structures, whitespace nodes, unexpected other nodes, etc), and
significantly harder to author. Also, in the case of the shadow tree we
would have to somehow hide the <forwards> elements from the final
flattened tree, the creation of which is already quite a confusing
operation. Overall, the parsing of the attribute is less difficult than
the processing of elements in this situation.
Fine.
Cyril
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