Comments on: New Way to Store Custom Data http://timkadlec.com/2008/08/new-way-to-store-custom-data/ A Wisconsin based web developer writing about the web. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:27:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tim Kadlec http://timkadlec.com/2008/08/new-way-to-store-custom-data/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Tim Kadlec Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/1969/12/new-way-to-store-custom-data/#comment-91 @Sérgio - Very true! If you roll your own DTD, then technically the page will validate. It's a good temporary fix, though in the end, it's going to come down to your opinion on the matter.<br /><br />Some people don't like to use custom DTD's because they don't like the idea of adding 'proprietary' elements and attributes. The idea behind (X)HTML is to provide common semantical meaning to information in a site...and custom elements and attributes, if abused, can definitely get away from that. @Sérgio – Very true! If you roll your own DTD, then technically the page will validate. It’s a good temporary fix, though in the end, it’s going to come down to your opinion on the matter.

Some people don’t like to use custom DTD’s because they don’t like the idea of adding ‘proprietary’ elements and attributes. The idea behind (X)HTML is to provide common semantical meaning to information in a site…and custom elements and attributes, if abused, can definitely get away from that.

]]> By: Sérgio Diniz http://timkadlec.com/2008/08/new-way-to-store-custom-data/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Sérgio Diniz Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/1969/12/new-way-to-store-custom-data/#comment-90 Hi...<br />Actually you can create your own custom data attribute and still validate the page correctly. <br /><br />As can be seen here:<br />http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customdtd/<br />And here:<br />http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/own-dtd.html<br /><br />By all,<br />Sérgio Diniz Hi…
Actually you can create your own custom data attribute and still validate the page correctly.

As can be seen here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customdtd/
And here:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/own-dtd.html

By all,
Sérgio Diniz

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