- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:11:23 -0400
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, html-tidy@w3.org
Agree. Whenever copying a name attribute to an id, it probably makes sense to validate the id value. Definitely for XHTML (or any XML), anyway. At 12:44 AM 5/25/2002 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >* Dave Raggett wrote: > >The following request arises from experience within W3C. > >When tidying a document where there are links with name > >attributes which start with digits, Tidy adds an id attribute > >but doesn't warn about invalid values. ID values can't start > >with digits. > >Yes, but running Tidy on the same document after adding the id, current >Tidy will warn about the invalid id attribute... > >So you suggest adding something like the following? > > if (name is no valid ID) > ReportWarning "cannot add id attribute, invalid ID '1foo'" > else > add_id_to_element > >Should we warn about names that cannot be IDs in general?
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