Re: <resouce>, links, and addresses [was: W3C and Handle technology ]
Arnoud (galactus@htmlhelp.com)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:51:21 +0200
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: <resouce>, links, and addresses [was: W3C and Handle technology ]
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:51:21 +0200
Message-ID: <Z2EOy4uYO18V089yn@htmlhelp.com>
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In article <9609111135.ZM27606@gaia.ckm.ucsf.edu>,
"Marc Salomon" <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> ID is an ISO-8879 way to attach a document unique identifier to an element.
> The document won't parse if it contains non-unique ID's.
>
> NAME is a CDATA attribute, uniqueness of which doesn't effect parsing, but
> would confuse a browser in rendering or dereferencing.
Agreed, but I was asking about situations like this one:
<P ID=someid>
<A NAME=someid>The</A> first example we will consider is...
</P>
This is a naming conflict, but it's necessary to ensure backward
compatibility with non-ID browsers.
> Language in the URL spec hints that this might be the case. The Wilbur DTD
> defines ID as does SGML with no special hints as to its architectural role.
I didn't see any mention of the ID attribute in the Wilbur DTD.
Galactus
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