RE: NAME or ID ?

'id' is the preferred attribute for xhtml. 'name' has been deprecated.
unfortunately, some browsers 


-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Macdonald [mailto:murray@mha.ca]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:59 PM
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: NAME or ID ?


Is there a favored way to identify instances in new tags?  

  a) <newtag name="foo"/>

  b) <newtag id="foo"/>

Can someone please help me identify the preferred solution according to the
W3?

Thanks,

--Murray Macdonald