Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-07-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote: 2009/6/10 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Tue, 19 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-06-10 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers for the starting character)? Why can't we just change

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-06-10 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2009/6/10 Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch: On Tue, 19 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers for the starting

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 19 May 2009 03:20:49 +0200, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote: In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers for the starting

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Brett Zamir
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 03:20:49 +0200, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote: In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:46:43 +0200, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote: While it may not be that common, people may want at a later date to apply some files for validation... And don't forget the vanity/business factor in having a fully validating site :) You can have validation

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Brett Zamir
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:46:43 +0200, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote: While it may not be that common, people may want at a later date to apply some files for validation... And don't forget the vanity/business factor in having a fully validating site :) You

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:14:06 +0200, Brett Zamir bret...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry I guess I was forgetting that HTML can be validated just as well. However, whichever way one validates, RelaxNG or whatever, XHTML 5 (and HTML 5?) will still define it as an ID type, no? Even when defined as of

Re: [whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 19, 2009, at 15:14, Brett Zamir wrote: However, whichever way one validates, RelaxNG or whatever, XHTML 5 (and HTML 5?) will still define it as an ID type, no? The RELAX NG DTD Compatibility feature isn't all that useful in practice, so no, you probably wouldn't make it have IDness

[whatwg] Reserving id attribute values?

2009-05-18 Thread Brett Zamir
In order to comply with XML ID requirements in XML, and facilitate future transitions to XML, can HTML 5 explicitly encourage id attribute values to follow this pattern (e.g., disallowing numbers for the starting character)? Also, there is this minor errata: