- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 02:48:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > 2009/6/10 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: > > On Tue, 19 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: > >> > >> In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate > >> future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id > >> attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers > >> for the starting character)? > > > > Why can't we just change the XML ID requirements in XML to be less > > strict? > > Because you are not part of the XMLCore WG, because XML is a > Recommendation and because ID has been a Name from the very beginning of > SGML. If something should be changed, it is the HTML5 draft. Naturally > it should be only an author conformance requirement. Simon has forwarded the thread to the XML working group, so maybe they will change the rules. In the meantime, I don't see any reason to limit what HTML can do based on arbitrary limits that XML has, so I haven't changed HTML5 here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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