- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:44:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
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. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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