Re: [xml] HTML input element and IDness

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:02:00PM -0500, Rob Richards wrote:
> I am not 100% sure of the correct behavior here as this is from a bug 
> report I received, but reading the CVS log for version 1.174 of valid.c
> * valid.c: in HTML, a name in an input is not an ID
> it looks like the behavior is wrong. It appears to never indicate an ID 
> if an input element is passed in regardless of the attribute name.
> 
> My eyes are a bit buggy from all the parenthesis, but I believe this 
> patch correctly fixes the behavior:
> - if att name is "id" then its an ID
> - if att name is "name" then its an ID if no element passed in or the 
> element name is not "input".
> 
> I don't know if an element is required here or not, but previously to 
> the change in 1.174 there was no element check so I am assuming it is 
> not required.

  Fine by me,

Daniel


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