Re: CSS selectors and xml:id

On Monday, May 9, 2005, 2:49:37 PM, Ian wrote:

IH> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Chris Lilley wrote:
>> 
>> BH> Could you propose text that should be added?
>> 
>> If an implementation supports CSS 2.1 and also supports xml:id, then the
>> xml:id attribute must be treated as an ID for the purposes of CSS
>> selector processing.

IH> This would be very bad because it would leave other ID-based APIs
IH> (such as getElementById) ignorant of xml:id.

Um, as you would say, getElementById is out of scope of CSS. The wording
above does not affect xml:id processing in any way. It merely adds a
conditional conformance clause on CSS implementations to actually do
something with the reported value.

IH> Fix the problem at the source, not at the symptom.

I'm not seeing a problem.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead