- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:00:10 +0300
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 1, 2007, at 18:54, Robert Burns wrote: > On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> I said that it is not of type ID as far as the XML Processor (that >> is, the XML parser as defined by the XML 1.0 spec) is concerned >> when there is no DTD declaring the attribute id to be of type ID. >> Between the XML parser and later stages of processing, you do want >> to assign IDness to id. I propose acknowledging this explicitly in >> the spec and calling the processing stage an "XHTML id Processor". >> This is analogous to how xml:id gains its IDness after the XML >> Processor in the DTDless case. >> >> (What I said above holds regardless of what lexical space is >> allowed for the id attribute.) > > I think you're raising a completely different issue from what I'm > trying to address. I said why id isn't subject to the constraints XML 1.0 places on IDs *even if* it gains IDness between the XML parser and further processing. This is pertinent to whether "XML compatibility" is a real problem. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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