- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:45:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-xml-id@w3.org
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Norman Walsh wrote: > > 1. Rather than speaking of "ID assignment", the specification now > speaks of "ID type assignment": [...] > > 2. We added a note to make it clear that application behavior (e.g., > whether or not the getElementById() function actually accepts the > empty string as a legitimate value) is beyond the scope of this > specification. [...] > > Please let us know if this change satisfies your comment. (Our CR > decision call is tomorrow morning, so a prompt reply would be most > appreciated.) This change does satisfy my concern, thanks! > Application-level processing of IDs, including which elements can > actually be addressed by which ID values, is beyond the scope of > this specification. Just out of interest, which specification _does_ have this in scope? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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