Re: Odd case sensitive rules regarding <A name="abc">
Markku Savela (msa@anise.tte.vtt.fi)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:14:20 +0200 (EET)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:14:20 +0200 (EET)
From: Markku Savela <msa@anise.tte.vtt.fi>
Message-Id: <199802181014.MAA08749@anise.tte.vtt.fi>
To: www-html@w3.org
In-reply-to: <000401bd3bee$0f40c480$cf20268a@hpxu> (message from Ian Hickson on Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:50:50 -0500 (EST))
Subject: Re: Odd case sensitive rules regarding <A name="abc">
> From: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
> Can someone explan the logic in this?
I cannot explain the logic..., just going to express my opinion here
about...
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1
> * Uniqueness: Anchor names must be unique within a document.
> Anchor names that differ only in case may not appear in the
> same document
The latter statement about the case should be deleted. Let the anchor
name be a string of octets and compared as is. Furher down there is
> Anchor names should be restricted to ASCII characters. Please
> consult the appendix for more information about non-ASCII characters
> in URI attribute values.
This is a direct result of the "case insensivity" statement. If you
remove that, you don't need to limit anchor names to ASCII either.
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Markku Savela (msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Multimedia Systems, P.O.Box 1203,FIN-02044 VTT,http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/msa/