[whatwg] [WF2] Web Forms 2.0: Repetition and type ID

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote:
>
> I'd like to suggest that ID attributes use a different syntax than [] to 
> mark repetition placeholders, one that fits with the XML restrictions on 
> IDs. The current syntax makes it impossible to define ID attributes as 
> "type ID" in any of the three major XML validation schemas, which 
> affects both the usefulness of authoring tools that rely on IDness (e.g. 
> for navigational tags or for catching duplication and referential 
> errors) and the integrity of other specs (such as the CSS 2.1 
> specification) that rely on such definitions.

It isn't a problem that schemas and DTDs would have problems here, since 
HTML5 conformance checkers have to do a lot more than any of the DTD and 
schema languages support anyway. I don't understand what you mean when you 
say authoring tools would have problems; why would they? I definitely 
don't understand what you mean by the integrity of other specs being at 
risk.


> I don't care what the syntax is (I suggest :-replaceable-: for lack of 
> anything better), and it doesn't have to apply to other attributes where 
> [replaceable] is more natural.

Ok, I allowed two other characters to be used in the place of [] as well.

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