Re: On the abolishment of IDs (Re: IDs - make them case sensitive)

> > >I currently can do it, by adding ":/?;" to the NAMECHAR.

[Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>]

> > Do that and you can't use "/>" to end a tag.

[Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>]
>
> No, I think, because
>
> 1) all attribute value specs in XML have to be quoted
> 2) the longest delimiter rule in SGML will mean that a /> is
> recognised correctly (I am not suggesting that ">" should be
> a valid name character :-)

But NAME tokens are also parsed with the leftmost-longest rule,
so "<IMG/>" would be scanned as STAGO, NAME "IMG/", TAGC
if "/" were a NAMECHAR.


--Joe English

  joe@art.com

Received on Saturday, 28 June 1997 22:56:09 UTC