Re: [Docutils-users] Re: Repeated ID attributes in generated HTML

[David G. <go...@py...>]

>> Anthony Williams wrote:
>>> "The id and name attributes share the same name space. This means
>>> that they cannot both define an anchor with the same name in the
>>> same document."  which I think is pretty conclusive. There is an
>>> exception for both an id and name attribute on the same tag, with
>>> the same name.

> Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> In this context, support for NN4 does not seem an adequate reason
>> for writing invalid HTML.

[Felix Wiemann]
> Well, yes.  I'm +0 on removing the "name" attributes.  Any comments
> from David?

Since we're planning to drop NN4 support in Docutils 0.5, we can drop
the "name" attributes then too.  In the meantime, it would be better
to conform to the spec.  So I took Anthony's patch and reworked it a
bit; patch attached.  Any objections?

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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>