Re: W3C validator and ASP.NET __VIEWSTATE

Le 15/05/2010 11:43, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis a écrit :
>
> /Pace/ Thomas Gambet, this is wrong. ;)
>    
My mistake. Thank you for this good explanation.
> HTML 4.01 is an SGML dialect. The "id" attribute is of type ID, and
> type ID 'must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by
> any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores
> ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").' So "id='__VIEWSTATE'" is
> invalid HTML 4.01.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-id
>
> XHTML 1.0 is an XML dialect. In XHTML 1.0, the "id" attribute is of
> XML type ID. Type ID must match the Name production, which is
> defined in BNF:
>
>      NameStartChar  ::=    ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6]
>                              | [#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] |
>                              [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] |
>                              [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] |
>                              [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF] |
>                              [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD] |
>                              [#x10000-#xEFFFF]
>
>      NameChar    ::=      NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7
>                              | [#x0300-#x036F] | [#x203F-#x2040]
>
>      Name ::=    NameStartChar (NameChar)*
>
> "__VIEWSTATE" matches the Name production, therefore
> "id='__VIEWSTATE'" is valid XHTML 1.0.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Strict
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#id
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name
>
> "W3C standard section C" ("HTML Compatibility Guidelines") is marked
> "informative":
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#guidelines
>
> This is a bit of spec jargon: "normative" material sets conformance
> requirements, "informative" material does not.
>
> Specifically, this section offers /advice/ for publishers serving
> documents that validate to the formal grammar of XHTML 1.0 with the
> MIME Type of text/html. This is - almost certainly - the category of
> documents the NAO are publishing. The section does say: "Note that
> the collection of legal values in XML 1.0 Section 2.3, production 5
> is much larger than that permitted to be used in the ID and NAME
> types defined in HTML 4. When defining fragment identifiers to be
> backward-compatible, only strings matching the pattern
> [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used." But again this is a piece
> of information, *not* an additional conformance requirement.
> Whether you follow this advice does not affect whether your document
> validates as XHTML 1.0 or meets the WCAG 1.0 requirement to
> "validate to published formal grammars".
>
>    
>> However they are failing other validator programs such as the
>> Sitemorse checker that we subscribe to to give us monthly
>> assessments of our code quality.
>>      
> The W3C validator is behaving correctly by validating
> id="__VIEWSTATE" as XHTML 1.0.
>
> If the Sitemorse checker asserts that documents do not validate as
> XHTML 1.0 because an "id" attribute begins with an underscore, then
> the Sitemorse checker is wrong.
>
> Indeed, an FAQ on their website about this topic suggests they do
> not understand how to read the specifications their tool purports to
> validate against:
>
> http://www.sitemorse.com/kb.html?q=1269547103
>
> Specifically, their claim that "The XHTML 1.0 Specification requires
> XHTML content served with a text/html mime type to conform to
> certain Compatibility Guidelines outlined in Section C" is simply
> erroneous. As I explained above, no documents are required to follow
> the Compatibility Guidelines; they are just advisory.
>
> In passing, W3C has released an update to the Compatibility
> Guidelines as a (purely informative) appendix to a W3C Note (a
> "Note" means a document that is not a formal W3C Recommendation):
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#compatGuidelines
>
> It still advices: "DO ensure that the values used for the id
> attribute are limited to the pattern [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]*."
>
> In practice, though "id='__VIEWSTATE'" is unlikely to cause users
> any problems in popular modern web browsers. If it did, .NET would
> be in serious trouble. The HTML5 draft is codifying how to process
> web content for maximum compatibility with the existing web corpus,
> and it constrains "id" in text/html only as follows: "The value must
> be unique amongst all the IDs in the element's home subtree and must
> contain at least one character. The value must not contain any space
> characters."
>
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-id-attribute
>
> In summary, id="__VIEWSTATE" is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, is unlikely
> to cause any real-world problems, and does not affect your WCAG 1.0
> conformance.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>

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