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Re: The ID Attribute

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 08:08:49 +0200
To: Roland Bluethgen <calocybe@web.de>
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <3eb4c3e8.93598297@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de> 

* Roland Bluethgen wrote:
>> The name attribute is a CDATA attribute and may thus contain almost any
>> character, <a name = '1 foo <> bar'>...</a> is perfectly valid in HTML.
>
>If you had followed the pointer to the spec that Simon gave us, you 
>would have read:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-name-A

The name attribute in <meta name='...' /> is a NAME token,
the name attribute in <a name='...' /> is a CDATA token.
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