On 20 Oct 2006, at 18:34:44, Charles Roper wrote:
OK, so "urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:530114" would actually be a valid class name then? The LSID would almost certainly never be used as a CSS selector (should never rule the possibility out, though), so if it's valid in its unescaped form then that's great news.
Yes, by any reading of the spec it's a valid value of the HTML class attribute.
We tend to associate class so closely with its use in CSS class selectors that we forget that it's also, or even primarily, "for general-purpose processing by user agents". Your use as part of a microformat fits in perfectly with that. Those that want to target it with CSS will have to be aware of the additional handling they need to do to work with it according to spec; but that's Somebody Else's Problem :-)
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