Hello.
I request to change the axis attribute to a space-separated list of values
in XHTML 2.0
Current definition:
"This attribute may be used to place a cell into conceptual categories that
can be considered to form axes in an n-dimensional space. User agents may
give users access to these categories (e.g., the user may query the user
agent for all cells that belong to certain categories, the user agent may
present a table in the form of a table of contents, etc.). Please consult
the section on categorizing cells for more information. The value of this
attribute is a comma-separated list of category names."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-tables.html#adef_tables_axis
It is inconsistent with other attributes supporting lists of values by
separating them with space. For example the headers attribute in the table
module.
Furthermore it makes it impossible to cooperate with css selectors which
also define
attribute selectors of space separated values (ex. E[foo~="warning"]) but
not for comma separeted values. And since the purpose of AXIS is to support
a filtering capability this can be very important.
Greetings
Tobias Schultze
Btw: I also posted it at
http://htmlwg.mn.aptest.com/cgi-bin/xhtml2-issues?findid=8061 but
that tracker seems to be dead.
