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• Subject: Re: Architectural Forms: A New Generation (draft 2.1)
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 07:48:46 -0800
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John Cowan wrote:

> I would be interested to know of use cases for AF's #ARCCONT,
> the ability to derive architectural content from the value of
> a source attribute.

An HTML-to-Braille converter might use this to turn
<IMG ALT="alternate text" ...> into <FIG>alternate text</FIG>.

What would be even more useful is a way to turn attributes
into subelements, with the content determined by the attribute value.
I can think of several use cases for this.


--Joe English

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