Re: Use of <a name="xxx" id="xxx"> in text/html specs

On 03/10/2011 13:29, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Notably, I'm not sure what the value of<h1><a id='foo'/>Foo</h1>  is over<h1 id='foo'>Foo</h1>

Netscape 3 support perhaps (which is why it uses <a name=xx id=xxx> in 
case id isn't supported...

 >  (or perhaps even more semantically: with the id on the 
containing<div>) is,

For headings it would be fairly easy to change the stylesheets to do 
that, more problematic is xmlspec's support of inline definitions where 
you can mark a phrase appearing inline mid-paragraph as a definition so 
it gets an empty <a id="xxx> to which you can link elsewhere in the 
document.

David

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