On Nov 6, 2006, at 15:57, Elliotte Harold wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
Considering that xml:id support for Gecko has been blocked
( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275196 ), would it
be a good idea for a conformance checking service to emit a
warning if an element in the XHTML namespace has an attribute
whose attribute type is ID but the attribute does not have the
local name "id" in no namespace?
Will the conformance checking service do simple DTD validation?
It won't.
There's no DTD for XHTML5 and writing one would be a bad idea. Also,
the conformance checking service runs the XML parser in the non-
validating mode without resolving external entities, because XHTML
browsers generally do not perform DTD validation and do not resolve
external entities and it would be a bad idea for a conformance
checker to examine a document tree that is different from what
browsers see.
If so, wouldn't this catch any such issues?
It wouldn't. It would be part of the problem! (The document could
declare a random attribute to be of type ID in the DTD.)
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Henri Sivonen
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