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Re: tidy putting gratuitous id='s

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:50:37 +0200
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <40d65e76.557013322@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> 

* Dan Jacobson wrote:
>Goodness, tidy (vers 1st March 2004) puts
><a name="usb_card_reader" id="usb_card_reader">
>where just
><a name="usb_card_reader">
>existed before.
>That will take users a lot of work to clean up if that's not what they want.

Could you be a bit more specific on why users would not want that? For
HTML documents this is indeed not exactly what Tidy should do, and a
known issue, but for XHTML 1.0 documents this is certainly the correct
behavior and Tidy did that for many years...
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