Re: CSS selectors and xml:id

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Chris Lilley wrote:
> 
> BH> Could you propose text that should be added?
> 
> If an implementation supports CSS 2.1 and also supports xml:id, then the
> xml:id attribute must be treated as an ID for the purposes of CSS
> selector processing.

This would be very bad because it would leave other ID-based APIs (such as 
getElementById) ignorant of xml:id.

Fix the problem at the source, not at the symptom.

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