[Bug 17298] valid character range for identifiers too broad

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17298

--- Comment #2 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 2012-06-04 09:00:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Proposal: exclude those characters from US-ASCII which aren't also allowed in
> > XML IDs (<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name>)
> 
> Excluding ASCII digits is an annoying and arbitrary limitation. People often
> want numbered fragment identifiers. They shouldn't be required to know that
> they have to put a one-character prefix before the number.
> 
> I object to encumbering HTML by limiting IDs to XML Names.

ASCII digits are allowed, just not as start character. And yes, that's
annoying.

There should be a middle ground here; not having an extension point at all is a
problem as well.

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Received on Monday, 4 June 2012 09:00:38 UTC