- From: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:40:02 -0400
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Just wondering if there has been any further action/discussion on
this? I don't see any updates or errata on any of the selector
version recs/drafts and the conversation seems to have dropped off.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:35:28 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
>> * Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, there's a problem in this case. At least two people so far have
>>> independently read this text to mean that in this testcase:
>>>
>>> <style>
>>> * { color: red }
>>> #foo { color: green }
>>> </style>
>>> <div id="foo">Text</div>
>>> <div id="foo">Text</div>
>>>
>>> should have a green first line and a red second line because the
>>> requirement that IDs be unique is normative CSS requirement...
>>
>> The last paragraph in the section defines how to handle this. If the
>> text or the organization of the paragraphs is confusing, then the text
>> should be changed so it's not confusing. Marking some sentences as not
>> normative is unlikely to do that; it would be better to move the para-
>> graph at the bottom before the example, for instance.
>
> The last paragraph in section 6.5 says
>
> "If an element has multiple ID attributes, all of them must be treated as
> IDs for that element for the purposes of the ID selector. Such a situation
> could be reached using mixtures of xml:id, DOM3 Core, XML DTDs, and
> namespace-specific knowledge."
>
> That's one element with multiple ID attributes, not one ID attribute where
> the same value occurs for multiple elements.
>
> --
> Øyvind Stenhaug
> Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
>
>
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