Re: [whatwg] alternate ids for elements

Am .12.2014, 15:30 Uhr, schrieb Nils Dagsson Moskopp  
<nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>:

> Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2014-12-03 15:02, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>> 2014-12-03, 15:49, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a use case where a certain location in a document can have two
>>>> anchors (or even more). For instance, in a spec, the author may have
>>>> specified an anchor, but a section-number based anchor is required as
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate on that? Why cannot you use the same id attribute
>>> value in all references to an element?
>>
>> 1.) An author-supplied anchor may change, but you want to preserve
>> existing "deep" links from other documents.
>
> The solution seems simple to me: Do not change the anchor id,
> ever.

It might be useful to add a note to  
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-id-attribute advising  
not to change ids, at least not when they are used for the purpose of  
linking to certain parts of the document. Rfc4287 uses the term  
“permanent” for atom:ids. That’s a nice word.

Martin

Received on Wednesday, 3 December 2014 23:23:03 UTC