/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say: [...] | so the total was down to 10265), and found 992 pages, from 636 | distinct hosts, which contained anchors (<a href= or <a id=) which | began with a digit. This came up briefly on the TAG telcon during which I did a little spelunking. AFIACT, <a name="1234"/> is a valid HTML 4.01 anchor and, by extension, is also a valid XHTML 1.0 anchor. There are some weird restrictions on name attributes on "a", but NCName-ness isn't, AFAICT, one of them. I'm really uncomfortable with the direction things are going: a world where we have QNames and extended-sortof-mostly-QName-CURIEs. If the world demands CURIEs, I'm starting to think we ought to rattle the foundations until we can make them fit in properly. Not that I really expect the world to go along with me on that one... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The follies which a man regrets most http://nwalsh.com/ | are those which he didn't commit when | he had the opportunity.--Helen RowlandReceived on Friday, 15 February 2008 14:14:22 GMT
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