[Docutils-develop] Name for new attribute

[Stefan M. <sm...@oe...>]

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Hi!

Since David seems to be decided to introduce the unholy attribute
named ``class`` in HTML - could it get at least a correct name in
reST? Webster says:

  1.
     a. a body of students meeting regularly to study the same subject
     b. the period during which such a body meets
     c. a course of instruction
     d. a body of students or alumni whose year of graduation is the same

  2.
     a. a group sharing the same economic or social status <the working
	class>
     b. social rank; especially : high social rank
     c. high quality : ELEGANCE_

  3. a group, set, or kind sharing common attributes: as
     a. a major category in biological taxonomy ranking above the
        order and below the phylum or division
     b. a collection of adjacent and discrete or continuous values of
        a random variable
     c. SET_ 21

  4. a division or rating based on grade or quality

  5. the best of its kind <the class of the league>

Probably case 3 is most closely to the meaning intended in HTML here.
However, in HTML the class attribute has been created to represent
structural features simply not present in HTML and to have a hook CSS
can hook in.

As far as I understood this should not be the intended meaning in
reST. However, in reST it should be more like a hint or so for a
writer to create some special output style. If so could the attribute
be named that way then?

Ahm - prehaps it would be useful to explicitly think about the
intended meaning of such an attribute instead of simply copying the
meaning from HTML?

I can not come up with a really good suggestion though. Probably it's
better to leave that to the English native speakers anyway.


						Mit Freien Gr=FC=DFen

						Stefan

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