2009/6/10 Ian Hickson <[email protected]>: > 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 the XML ID requirements in XML to be less strict?
Because you are not part of the XMLCore WG, because XML is a Recommendation and because ID has been a Name from the very beginning of SGML. If something should be changed, it is the HTML5 draft. Naturally it should be only an author conformance requirement. > >> Also, there is this minor errata: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#refsCSS21 is broken >> (in section 3.2) > > I haven't done any references yet; I'll probably get to them in a couple > of months. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > Giovanni
