- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:44:36 +0200
On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:06, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> Considering that xml:id support for Gecko has been blocked ( https:// >> bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275196 ), would it be a good >> idea >> for a conformance checking service to emit a warning if an element in >> the XHTML namespace has an attribute whose attribute type is ID >> but the >> attribute does not have the local name "id" in no namespace? > > That's a judgement call and outside the scope of the WA1 spec -- as > with > any warning, it would be helpful to authors who don't know what > they are > doing, and annoying to those who do. Agreed. I am on the fence with the judgement call, which is why I am interested in the opinion of the readers of this list. It has been suggested to me at least twice in private that I could consider not supporting xml:id at all (i.e. emit an error even). However, supporting xml:id is not that hard, since I already added an xml:id processor to the processing pipeline so anything keyed on IDness just works. (For referential integrity checking, I changed the Schematron assertions to use XPath id() and I am writing Java code that looks for IDness rather than the name "id".) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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