I think the suggestion of adding a dir attribute is a very good idea.
The great thing is that it can be done without any significant backwards
compatibility concerns. The definition of the attribute is simple enough:
atomCommonAttributes =
attribute xml:base { atomUri }?,
attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }?,
attribute dir { "rtl" | "ltr" }?,
undefinedAttribute*
The attribute establishes the base direction of the text content of an
element (and plain text attributes, e.g. category/@label) and is pretty
much identical in form to XHTML's dir attribute.
I'm not 100% certain, but we'd likely be better off limiting the
definition such that only "Language Sensitive" elements and attributes
are affected by the dir attribute.
In any case, +1 from me.
- James
Robert Sayre wrote:
>
> I think we should move the format to Draft Standard by clearing up any
> errata and adding two attributes: 'dir' and 'unicode-bidi', as defined
> in XHTML.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Robert Sayre
>
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