parameterized classes?

Hello,

This is somewhat off-topic.

I was wondering what people thought about parameterized
classes?

For example...

<a class="group"
; href="a.html"></a>
<a class="group"
; href="a.rss"></a>
<a class="group"
; href="a.atom"></a>

<a class="group:y"
href="b.png"></a>
<a class="group:y"
href="b.jpg"></a>



Perhaps the above could be Semantic HTML to mark alternate
links.

Where "a.html", "a.rss", and
"a.atom" would be a set of alternates.
And "b.png" and "b.jpg" would be another
set of alternates.

(This would have the advantage where these links could be
very very
loosely coupled.  Which is why I might write Semantic HTML
like this.)

I believe that CSS would have problems styling these types
of class
names.  For example, you could NOT do something like:

.group
{
    /* CSS stuff here */
}

Those types of CSS wildcards aren't allowed AFAIK.

But JavaScript could handle these types of class names
relatively easy.

Can anyone see any draw back from using parameterized
classes?


See ya

-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles  reptile.ca
    supercanadian  gmail.com

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