Re: id attribute in HTML 4.01

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa wrote:

> This is due to historical reason that the 'name' attribute was used
> for anchors, and 'name' is of type CDATA, which is case-sensitive.
> HTML 4 allowed the 'id' attribute (which is case-insensitive) as
> an another way to create an anchor and defined that the 'id' and
> 'name' attributes share the same name space.  Section 12.2.1 was
> written in order to cope with this obvious contradiction.

Ah.  This is highly unfortunate.
Of course the correct answer is to require uppercase for all fragment
identifiers.

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