On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com> wrote: > 2. In the uniqueid element in the Metadata section, there is a note:” > The id attribute of the uniqueid element, and of several further metadata > elements defined below, is not required to conform to the rules for the XML > type ID; its form is at the discretion of the font creator or vendor.” It > does not seem appropriate for a W3C spec to advocate violation of XML well > formedness, especially since the uniqueid element is empty and could contain > the unique ID as its value. Also, the conformance requirement summary for > Metadata says, “The decompressed data MUST be well-formed XML.” Well-formedness does not require that id's match XML's Name production. A generic XML processor doesn't even know whether a given attribute is supposed to contain an id or not; the attribute name "id" has no special meaning in XML. If a DTD were provided for the WOFF metadata format, it would want to declare the id attribute to be of type CDATA, not ID -- but that would still be only a validity issue, not a well-formedness issue. Note that XHTML5 also doesn't require its id attribute to match XML's Name production.Received on Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:33:07 UTC
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