- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:39:55 +0100
- To: John Lascurettes <John.Lascurettes@providence.org>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
On 2007-01-26 20:43, John Lascurettes wrote: > Validating http://providence.org/resources/oregon/test/john/0/id.htm > Error [141]: "ID X already defined" > > This paragraph has attribute id="Unique" > > This paragraph has attribute id="uNIQUE" > > The Validator throws this error: > ID "UNIQUE" already defined. > > Shouldn't they be considered not the same ID since the ID attribute is > defined as case sensitive > (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id)? UA's treat them > that way. Why is it an error in the Validator then? The error is not in the validator, but in the spec. In SGML, the value of attributes with a declared value of ID are case folded, which means that both "Unique" and "uNIQUE" will end up as "UNIQUE". -- David Håsäther
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