Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:50:13 -0700 (PDT) From: <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> To: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: #anchors in .html handbook Message-ID: <199910151150.EAA30422@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 Oct 1999 03:21:03 MST." <vqczoxkx6uo.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> Eek. So it was the previous behavior that was wrong? (And may I A small correction: I had assumed that the 'name' attribute for <A> was parsed as an ID. A perusal of the HTML declaration however shows that it has been declared as CDATA and is thus is not under the scope of the NAMING case conversion rules. Further the HTML 3.2 spec also says: <--http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.2-->; o Uniqueness: Anchor names must be unique within a document. Anchor names that differ only in case may not appear in the same document. o String matching: Comparisons between fragment identifiers and anchor names must be done by exact (case-sensitive) match. <----> In itself this is consistent because 'name' attributes are parsed as CDATA (not ID as I assumed earlier) as are 'href' attributes. These are thus case *sensitive* (subject to the above rules) and work well together. > I'm not sure if I follow you here, the standard says user agents are > not required to do anything special for non-case-matching names, so > Netscape (the one I tried) is perfectly following the standard. But Yes, Netscape and Lynx are behaving correctly. We are generating <A> anchors based on the 'id' attributes of the original docbook elements. Since 'id's seem to be getting mapped to upper case the generated anchors also get to be in upper case. Perhaps someone with more SGML knowledge will clarify. Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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