Re: HTML WG Last Call Remarks to DOM 2 HTML

Steven, in order to finish addressing the issues from the HTML
WG, we would like a clarification:

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 10:59, Steven Pemberton wrote:
[[
Mixture of semantics: name and id. The 'name' attribute has zero
semantics in XHTML. So HTMLCollection.namedItem should only search for
id attributes in XHTML, and ignore 'name' attributes. For XHTML,
HTMLDocument.getElementsByName should only return form controls with
matching name.
]]

should it read
[[
Mixture of semantics: name and id. The 'name' attribute has zero
semantics in XHTML. So HTMLCollection.namedItem should only search for
id attributes in XHTML, and ignore 'name' attributes. For _HTML_,
HTMLDocument.getElementsByName should only return form controls with
matching name.
]]
or
[[
Mixture of semantics: name and id. The 'name' attribute has zero
semantics in XHTML. So HTMLCollection.namedItem should only search for
id attributes in XHTML, and ignore 'name' attributes. For XHTML, name
is only relevant in form controls, therefore
HTMLDocument.getElementsByName should only return form controls with
matching name.
]]

According to section 4.10 in http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs ,
it doesn't seem that the attribute name is deprecated in forms control
too.

Otherwise, we are almost done with other issues. As an heads-up, you can
look at 
http://www.w3.org/2001/12/DOM-Level-2-issues
(I of course expect to send a complete to the HTML WG in any case)


Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2002 19:02:10 UTC