[whatwg] IDness and warnings

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Mon Nov 6 05:57:53 PST 2006


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? If so, 
wouldn't this catch any such issues?

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