Re: Selectors: substantive comment: Use xml:id

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> I recommend that the CSS selectors spec *require* (or at least strongly 
> recommend) that conformant implementations recognize xml:id attributes 
> as IDs for the purpose of CSS ID selector matches as described in 
> section 6.5.

xml:id attributes must only be recognised as IDs in UAs that implement 
xml:id. We do not want to make conformance to Selectors dependent on 
conformance to xml:id. Naturally, in implementations that do implement 
xml:id, it is a requirement that xml:id matches #id selectors -- this is 
already the case given the current description.

Please let me know if this does not satisfy you.


> I further claim that the existence of xml:id makes the statement in 6.5 
> that "Elements in XML 1.0 documents without a DTD do not have IDs at 
> all." false.

I have removed this sentence. If the working group disagrees with this 
change upon further review, I will let you know.

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