Re: ID and NAME

• From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
• Date: 25 Sep 1997 21:55:51 +0100
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-id: <199709252055.VAA05006@imbolc.ucc.ie>

MZ writes:
   I know ID and NAME occupy the same namespace.

I thought the whole point about NAME was that it _didn't_ occupy
the same namespace as ID. Unless someone's changed it recently.
ID is declared as ID; NAME is CDATA last time I looked.

   <A NAME="fubar" ID="fubar">...

Perfectly OK, precisely because they _don't_ occupy the same
namespace.

///Peter

Received on Thursday, 25 September 1997 16:55:52 UTC