[whatwg] template element?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 28 11:28:35 PDT 2004


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> One thing that has come up in the context of WHAT WG but that I failed 
> to realize when I was designing a templating language is that you can 
> use attributes to add the template nature to elements of the target 
> language and reduce the overall number of elements.

Just so that nobody thinks we're claiming to have invented this: that idea 
was used by XForms long before Web Forms used it.

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