[uf-discuss] Re: Possible alternative methods for "include"

[Toby A Inkster]

<p>We have three branches in <span class="locality"
id="ldn">London</span>, including our head office in
<span class="locality" id="ken">Kensington</span>:</p>
<ul>
  <li class="adr #ldn">
    <span class="street-address">123 Oxford Street</span>
  </li>
  <li class="adr #ken #ldn">
    <span class="street-address">5 Kensington High Street</span>
  </li>
  <li class="adr #ldn">
    <span class="street-address">1 Pall Mall</span>
  </li>
</ul>

The order of the space-delimited class attributes should be considered 
significant -- that is, in <foo class="bar #baz"> the content referred to 
by #baz is logically included as the last child of the <foo> element, but 
in <foo class="#baz bar">, it is logically included as the first child.

Yes, the hash mark is valid in the class attribute, though rarely used 
because it won't work with CSS 1 selectors. 

If people can find real-life uses of the hash character in existing sites 
that would conflict with this proposed usage pattern, then perhaps another 
character could be used. I rather like '@foo', or maybe even a combination 
such as '@#foo'.

I shall add to the Wiki momentarily...

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