- From: Ian Stuart <ian.stuart@ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:18:26 +0000
- To: Validator list <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:13, David Dorward wrote: > On 3 Feb 2004, at 08:45, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > Error 141 if for a duplicate ID. Here is my proposal for the text for > > this message: > > > > "This attribute may only appear once in any (x)html document. > > This is wrong, the attribute may appear many times in a document, > but each time it must have a different value. My incorrect phrasing (which is why I like the idea of dicussion & discourse) > Perhaps: > > "An id is a unique identifier, each time this attribute is used in a > document > it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a > hock for > style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group > elements)." That reads much better than my version :-) Thanks. PS: "hock" => "hook" -- Ian Stuart, Perl Laghu. EDINA, Edinburgh University. +----------------------------------------------------+ | Just because the voices are not real | | it does not mean you should ignore their advice. | +----------------------------------------------------+ | Works web site: http://edina.ac.uk/ | | Personal web site: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/ | +----------------------------------------------------+
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