- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:51:38 +0200
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, public-media-fragment@w3.org
On 2012-05-29 15:54, Christoph Päper wrote: > Julian Reschke: > >> note that HTML5 (via DOMCORE) closed the door on extending the identifier format, because it makes pretty much everything a legal id. > > Do you mean this bit?<http://www.w3.org/TR/domcore/#concept-id>: > >>> An element has an ID if it has an id attribute whose value is not the empty string. >>> The ID is that attribute's value. Yes. > That doesn’t seem to say anything about the use of IDs in fragment identifiers, where they could be percent-escaped as necessary. That means > > <a id="foo=bar"> > > should be referenced by > > #foo%3Dbar > > and not by > > #foo=bar So how do you reference an HTML element with the id of "foo%3Dbar" then? > The “scroll to the fragment identifier” algorithm currently described in HTML5 could (and probably should) be extended in step 7 to support other methods than simple IDs, names and keywords.<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Overview#scroll-to-the-fragment-identifier> > > Note that there is a reference to RFC 3023 for HTML documents with an XML MIME type. This in turn mentions (a WD of) XPointer. > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023#page-15> HTML should restrict the set of valid IDs (just like HTML4 or XML did), so that new addressing schemes can be deployed. Best regards, Julian
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