[uf-discuss] dfn design pattern (proposal)

Mon Aug 20 18:57:21 PDT 2007

Michael MD wrote:
>>> --- just a quick FYI, this would be an incorrect implementation. The
>> appearance or the absence of the TITLE attribute does not control the
>> parsing, it is the semantics of the property and the element.
>> I guess I wasn't very clear.

No, you were clear.
> I was talking specifically about things like dtstart and dtend in 
> hcalendar.
>> My scripts do not require the title attribute to be present, but if 
> it is
> there it will look at its contents for the value.

That is an incorrect implementation according to the current spec. I 
hope that the current spec will be changed at some point (I voice my 
disapproval of the abbr-design-pattern frequently), but according to 
the current spec, this behavior should ONLY be present on the abbr 
element.
James