[whatwg] Update to the Adoption Agency Algorithm

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Fri Feb 3 00:54:55 PST 2006


Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Errors caused by the result of duplicate IDs either in the markup or
> indirectly as a result of badly nested elements can be fixed by a quick
> visit to the validator (or other conformance tool) or by making use of
> any or all of those tools I mentioned above.

It's much harder to spot them when they are dynamically generated by
e.g. a cloneNode operation. You can't submit your browser's DOM tree to
the validator...

Gerv



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