Re: ID and NAME (fwd)

Once upon a time Peter Flynn shaped the electrons to say...
>   I know ID and NAME occupy the same namespace.
>I thought the whole point about NAME was that it _didn't_ occupy
>the same namespace as ID. Unless someone's changed it recently.
>ID is declared as ID; NAME is CDATA last time I looked.
>   <A NAME="fubar" ID="fubar">...
>Perfectly OK, precisely because they _don't_ occupy the same
>namespace.

Note that Dave already replied that it is NOT ok.

AND all of the specifications state quite clearly that they DO occupy
the same namespace.

If a browser does not put them in the same namespace, then the browser
is in error.

-MZ
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 1997 17:31:12 UTC