- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:29:12 +0200
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-style@w3.org, <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
On Monday, May 9, 2005, 12:17:27 PM, Henry wrote: HST> Ian Hickson writes: >> The alternative would be for CSS to list every possible way of getting an >> ID onto an element (<html:* id="">, <svg:* id="">, xml:id="", DTDs, >> Schemas, the DOM3 Core methods, etc), and then have this list repeated >> every other place that needed to know about IDs (e.g. the definition of >> <html:label for="", the getElementById() method, the text/html fragment >> identifier definition, and so on and so forth). HST> I would recommend the XPointer framework spec. [1] as a model here -- HST> it describes the deal for DTD and W3C XML Schema in some detail, then HST> has a general clause covering 'other methods' for determining HST> IDness. . . HST> ht HST> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/#shorthand So, to be clear, you are suggesting that the CSS spec describe the DTD, W3C XML Schema, and xml:id methods and then have a similar general clause about 'other methods'? -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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