/ Paul Grosso <pgro...@arbortext.com> was heard to say: | At 15:00 2002 08 16 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: [...] |>Do we have consensus that |> |> <pre class="programlisting myrole"> |> |>is a good idea (actually, the general principle that ' rolevalue' can |>be tacked onto the class attribute)? | | What happens when the user assigns to the (source) role attribute | a value that looks like something the stylesheets are already | putting into the (output) class attribute for another element? | | For example, what if the user put <div role="programlisting"> | or <emphasis role="programlisting">?

The result will something like <div class="section programlisting"> and <em class="programlisting">. If your CSS stylesheet is nonspecific about the programlisting class value:

.programlisting {...}

instead of

pre.programlisting {...}

you'll likely get odd results. Your gun, your bullet, your foot?

Be seeing you, norm