[uf-dev] include-pattern testing

[Brian Suda]

We would have to re-write abit of information on the include pattern
page along with an example.

The include pattern mentions that it 'replaces' the <object> element.
[Thus a microformat parser would treat the above as follows, with the
object include completely replaced by the subtree that it references:]

it would be better to say something like the children of the reference
object are appended as children of the include object.

The one reason (which i can't create a strong example for at the
moment) would the following:

<div id="ref">
<span class="fn">brian suda</span>
</div>

<div class="vcard">
<object data="#ref" class="include url" type="text/html"/>
</div>

if we were to out-right replace the object with the referenced code,
we'd loose the class="url". If we change the rule slightly to say
'children' then it would actually become something like:

<div class="vcard">
<object data="#ref" class="include url" type="text/html">
  <span class="fn">brian suda</span>
</object>
</div>

This keeps things nested and a definite hierarchy of classes.

I would also say that the include 'appends' the data because this
would actually be valid HTML (and microformats)

<div id="ref">
<span class="family-name">suda</span>
</div>

<div class="vcard">
  <span class="n">
    <span class="given-name">brian</span>
    <object data="#ref" class="include" type="text/html">
      <span class="honorific-prefix">Mr.</span>
    </object>
</span>
</div>

which, with 'append' would become:

<div class="vcard">
  <span class="n">
    <span class="given-name">brian</span>
    <object data="#ref" class="include" type="text/html">
      <span class="honorific-prefix">Mr.</span>
      <span class="family-name">suda</span>
    </object>
  </span>
</div>

but with 'replace' we'd loose the class="honorific-prefix"

-brian


[1] - http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html

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