- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:51:21 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <9609111135.ZM27606@gaia.ckm.ucsf.edu>, "Marc Salomon" <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu> wrote: > ID is an ISO-8879 way to attach a document unique identifier to an element. > The document won't parse if it contains non-unique ID's. > > NAME is a CDATA attribute, uniqueness of which doesn't effect parsing, but > would confuse a browser in rendering or dereferencing. Agreed, but I was asking about situations like this one: <P ID=someid> <A NAME=someid>The</A> first example we will consider is... </P> This is a naming conflict, but it's necessary to ensure backward compatibility with non-ID browsers. > Language in the URL spec hints that this might be the case. The Wilbur DTD > defines ID as does SGML with no special hints as to its architectural role. I didn't see any mention of the ID attribute in the Wilbur DTD. Galactus - -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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