Re: XHTML1.1 DTD errata or Validator bug?

I used a unique id is used to give it a "hook" for user specified CSS, so
that they can specify CSS rules by:

html#mydomain elem.class {
foo: bar;
}

Giving body a unique id would suffce in HTML4, but it seems in XHTML, and
sending as application/xhtml+xml to compliant agents (Gecko and Amaya), for
Gecko at least, <html> is a better place to give the unique id than usng
<body>, since <body> looses it's "magicness", and <html> behaves more like
the canvas.

I can do this in XHTML1.0 (Strict or Transitional) but I _cannot_ do so in
XHTML1.1, which should just be XHTML1.0 Strict modularized.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gannon J. Dick" <gdick@verizon.net>
To: "Jonathan Stanley" <jon@lambcutlet.org>; <www-validator@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: XHTML1.1 DTD errata or Validator bug?


> What would be the value of a unique <head> component anyway?  Except maybe
> to fool a browser display ...
> You would probably want to hide same from a HTTP HEAD request too.
> So, IMHO the better way to do that (in the body) is <div id="foo"
> style="display:none;"> ...
> Gannon J. Dick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jonathan Stanley" <jon@lambcutlet.org>
> To: <www-validator@w3.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 2:07 PM
> Subject: XHTML1.1 DTD errata or Validator bug?
>
>
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > As I understand from HTML4 and XHTML1 Strict, the "id" attribute is
> global,
> > and can be applied to any element, and indeed, reading through said DTDs
> and
> > valdating a test case page where there was an "id=foo" inside the <html>
> > element, the said page would pass when validated as HTML4 or XHTML1.
> >
> > However, when the DTD was set to XHTML1.1, the validator will error
with:
> >
> > ---
> > This page is not Valid XHTML 1.1!...  there is no attribute "id".
> > ---
> >
> > The "highest level" element this seems to be allowed is the <body> tag,
> but
> > looking through the XHTML1.1 DTD modules, I cannot accertain whether
this
> is
> > deliberate on the part of XHTML1.1, it is an errata with the DTD, or
> whether
> > it's a bug with regards to the validator?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jon Stanley
> >
>

Received on Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:58:53 UTC