RE: Spurious <a> elements in xmlspec.xsl

Aha!  It seems to be a weird bug in Firefox.  When I view selected source or show information (Display & Class details) it shows these extra <a> anchors, but not when I do normal view source, or look at the source using notepad.

Phew, panic over.

RI


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
> Sent: 13 July 2005 17:57
> To: spec-prod@w3.org
> Cc: 'Richard Ishida'
> Subject: Spurious <a> elements in xmlspec.xsl 
> 
> I'm finding that spurious <a> elements are being created when 
> I run xmlspec.xsl using Saxon.
> 
> For example, see how the anchor on the h3 is cascaded to 
> several p elements following:
> 
> <h3><a name="d2e325" id="d2e325">3.3 Relationships with 
> character encoding and directionality</a></h3> <p><a 
> name="d2e325" id="d2e325">'<span class="qterm">Character 
> encoding</span>' refers to the bytes that are used to 
> represent characters in text. It is important to declare what 
> encoding is being used for your document.</a></p> <p><a 
> name="d2e325" id="d2e325">In some scripts, such as Arabic and 
> Hebrew, text runs predominantly from right to left. Within 
> that flow, numbers and text from other scripts run from left 
> to right. It is important to adequately specify the intended 
> '<span class="qterm">directionality</span>' of text in a 
> document.</a></p> <p><a name="d2e325" 
> id="d2e325"><em>Language declarations in HTML and XHTML have 
> nothing to do with character encoding or the direction of 
> text.</em>...
> 
> This is really weird.  It also happens with other element 
> combinations after a call to the anchor template in the 
> initial element. Anyone got any clues how to fix it?
> 
> RI
> 
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> 
> contact info:
> http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ 
> 
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