Yes, I worked around the issue of validity and accessibility of custom attributes while still using the widget. I must admit, I was more interested in your personal viewpoint on the issue as a whole. I think it would be an interesting discussion.

Thanks again.

I don’t think he did, but I can address your question here.

Short answer: You can use Dojo to write validating XHTML pages.

Long answer: You might need to use a fallback mechanism in some places to support that, but Dojo will work that way if you want it to. I think your question is probably prompted by the expando attribute syntax you may have seen for declaring widgets and initializing property values on them. This is, as with most things in Dojo, entirely optional. It’s possible to build widgets entirely from script, or to use a class-based syntax for noting where the widget should occur in the page. Extra attributes that you might see in widget template files don’t occur in the page until after onload (when the source nodes are replaced by widgets), so they shouldn’t affect validation one way or the other.

I’ll leave my personal feelings about XHTML and validation for another time, but rest assured that we are committed to providing you with ways to use of Dojo in validating HTML and XHTML environments.

Regards