- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:02:27 -0700
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Norman Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The paragraph in question is: > > It is common practice to assume that when an element has an > attribute that is declared in a DTD to be of type ID, then the > fragment identifier #abc identifies the element which has an > attribute of that type whose value is "abc". However, there is no > normative support for this assumption and it is problematic in > practice, since the only defined way to establish that an attribute > is of type ID is via a DTD, which may not exist or may not be > available. > > I've "rewritten" it as shown below I like your stuff, but I regret the loss of the strong statement "there is no normative support" for assuming that #bar means <whatever id="bar"> -Tim
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