Re: XML:ID extension spec proposal to HTML5 documents from David Carlisle on 2014-02-14 (public-html@w3.org from February 2014)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:15:00 +0000
To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
CC: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <52FDDE94.8000203@nag.co.uk>

On 14/02/2014 06:40, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Clearly, it would be safer w.r.t. avoiding errors if xml:id does not
>  match the idref of a id attribute

It would be safer still if authors did not put the ill fated xml:id
attribute in their html documents. As far as I can see, except for
yourself proposing this, not one person has spoken in favour of the idea.

David

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