The autocomplete attribute and web documents using XHTML: Difference between revisions

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 However, there is currently no way to trigger the same user agent functionality with an attribute in XHTML. This constitutes an unnecessary obstacle to the adoption of XML-based markup.
-By adopting my solution and supporting a small XHTML module and delimited <code>class</code> microformat, browsers could enable authors serving XHTML 1.0 as text/html to trigger the same behaviour with <code>class="fh disable_form_history"</code> and authors serving XHTML properly as application/xhtml+xml to trigger the same behaviour with a namespaced attribute (<code>fh:form_history="off"</code>). Those authors who wish to serve both XHTML and HTML properly using an XSL transformation would only need to add one template rule to their existing XSL.
+By adopting my solution and supporting a small XHTML module and delimited <code>class</code> microformat, browsers could enable authors serving XHTML 1.0 as text/html to trigger the same behaviour with <code>class="fh disable_form_history"</code> ([http://www.benjaminhawkeslewis.com/legacymarkup/examples/xhtml-1.0-strict-plus-autocomplete-html-compatible.html example XHTML 1.0 document]) and authors serving XHTML properly as application/xhtml+xml to trigger the same behaviour with a namespaced attribute (<code>fh:form_history="off"</code>). Those authors who wish to serve both XHTML and HTML properly using an XSL transformation would only need to add one template rule to their existing XSL.
 == Background ==