Re: NAME and ID attribute types content model

Christian,

>The validator does catch this
>
>valid   - <a name="1234">
>invalid - <meta name="1234" content="some numbers">
>
>Confusing, no doubt, to have an attribute "name" which is defined as
>being of type CDATA when it must share the same name space as another
>attribute "id" which is defined as being of type ID. Made more so by
>there being a data type NAME defined the same as ID.

Confusing indeed. But with your help it turned out to be clear.

Thanks,

Christian Rémillard
christian.remillard@umontreal.ca
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Received on Wednesday, 19 December 2001 10:12:06 UTC