- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:58:24 +0200
>>> In any case, "[" and "]" are now valid in IDs according to the
>>> WF2 SGML declaration, apparently:
>>>
>>> http://syntax.whatwg.org/sgml/html5core+wf2/pre1/declaration
>>>
>>> Doesn't help in XML, but in XML DTDs aren't needed at all anyway,
>>> so the point is largely moot.
>>
>> Maybe xml-editor at w3.org could be mailed to address this issue? If
>> they accept it as a valid issue 'xs:ID' will eventually change,
>> right?
>
> What exactly would the issue be? "Not enough characters are valid in
> IDs"? I suppose someone could raise that, but I doubt that changing
> XML syntax (this would require revving XML) will be very popular.
It probably has to be changed, otherwise it might be rejected be the
browser. Example[1]:
<html id="[test]">
<style>html{background:red}#[test]{background:lime}</style>
Now I see this I'm not even sure if it is backwards compatible enough.
[1]<data:text/html;charset=utf-8,%3Chtml%20id%3D%22%5Btest%5D%22%3E%3Cstyle%3Ehtml%7Bbackground%3Ared%7D%23%5Btest%5D%7Bbackground%3Alime%7D%3C%2Fstyle%3E>
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
Received on Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:58:24 UTC