I agree as well with the whole issue.

Laurens Holst wrote:

>
> However, with the role of a section defined as an attribute, it will 
> be somewhat difficult to style without shorthand in CSS that e.g. the 
> class attribute offers (which I used as â??roleâ?? before). I think a 
> solution needs to be found for that.
>
I don't think a shorthand is needed for that. I think that the current 
CSS2/3 syntax is sufficient. (And I strongly doubt that there will be 
any XHTML 2.0 browser that doesn't support those selectors.)

ul[role=menu] li {
}