[Bug 17298] valid character range for identifiers too broad

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17298

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> 2012-06-04 08:39:18 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Proposal: exclude those characters from US-ASCII which aren't also allowed in
> XML IDs (<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name>)

Excluding ASCII digits is an annoying and arbitrary limitation. People often
want numbered fragment identifiers. They shouldn't be required to know that
they have to put a one-character prefix before the number.

I object to encumbering HTML by limiting IDs to XML Names.

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Received on Monday, 4 June 2012 08:39:20 UTC