On 20 Feb 2008, at 19:47, Adele Peterson wrote:
I was looking at the definition of a valid hashed id reference, and I noticed some inconsistency. The first sentence says the string must match the id attribute, but then the last parsing rule says that the string can match the id or name attributes of the element. If the parsing rule is correct, then should there be some rule for determining which attribute should get checked first?
It already says "[r]eturn the first element" — which attribute gets checked first is irrelevant. If you search by attribute, I guess you need to carry out both searches, then combine the results, order by tree order, and return the first.
And if the parsing rule is correct, maybe the initial description should mention the name attribute too.
It means exactly what it says: conformant documents cannot use @name, but parsers must look in @name. They serve identical purposes, so there's no reason to allow both in a document, but parsers must support both for compatibility.
-- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
