[Trinidad] LinkRenderer calls writeURIAttribute for id... but why?

[Jeanne Waldman]

forgot to add [Trinidad] to the subject.

Jeanne Waldman wrote, On 4/15/2008 3:14 PM PT:

Hi there,

I'm wondering if anyone knows why the links id needs to call writeURIAttribute instead of writeAttribute.

The code is in GoLinkRenderer. The comment says that they are URI attributes, but it doesn't say why. I have some of my own code that does the same thing for links , but it causes a problem if the id is non-ascii, like Japanese. I can fix this issue by calling writeAttribute, but I don't want to cause other problems that I'm just not aware of.

Thanks for any insights!!
- Jeanne


 /**
  * Renders the client ID as both "id" and "name"
  */
 @Override
 protected void renderId(
   FacesContext context,
   UIComponent  component) throws IOException
 {
   if (shouldRenderId(context, component))
   {
     String clientId = getClientId(context, component);
     // For links, these are actually URI attributes
     context.getResponseWriter().writeURIAttribute("id", clientId, "id");

context.getResponseWriter().writeURIAttribute("name", clientId, "id");

   }
 }