Re: NAME or ID ?

* Murray Macdonald wrote:
>Is there a favored way to identify instances in new tags?  

I think you are talking about new _elements_...

>  a) <newtag name="foo"/>
>
>  b) <newtag id="foo"/>
>
>Can someone please help me identify the preferred solution
>according to the W3?

You must be talking about XHTML so I suggest to take a look at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/ If you new attribute
has the content model ID, you should call it 'id'; this isn't
stateted there, but the logical approach.
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Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2001 10:19:20 UTC