Re: [Nevow-commits] Replace ID generator values with IDs based on context.key. Group
On Feb 29, 2004, at 6:19 PM, mg CVS wrote:
+def keyToXMLID(key): + """Convert a key into an XML-style ID """ + if not key: + print 'keyToXMLID: no key, but why?' + return None + return '-'.join(key.split('.'))
Did you run into a specific problem forcing the translation of . to -? The HTML spec says: - ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods ("."). The XHTML spec seems to be even more open, allowing many many characters to be used in names. It says you should only use names matching [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* if you want to be compatible with HTML4. James
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 01:13, James Y Knight wrote:
On Feb 29, 2004, at 6:19 PM, mg CVS wrote:
+def keyToXMLID(key): + """Convert a key into an XML-style ID """ + if not key: + print 'keyToXMLID: no key, but why?' + return None + return '-'.join(key.split('.'))
Did you run into a specific problem forcing the translation of . to -? The HTML spec says: - ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").
The XHTML spec seems to be even more open, allowing many many characters to be used in names. It says you should only use names matching [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* if you want to be compatible with HTML4.
Not a specific problem as such. I replaced '.' with '-' to make the elements selectable by ID in the CSS, as well as useful within the document itself. JavaScript should also have no trouble getting a reference to the elements using either the DOM or form.elements[] API. Is this ok, can you think of any problems with doing this? Cheers, Matt -- Matt Goodall, Pollenation Internet Ltd w: http://www.pollenation.net e: matt@pollenation.net Any views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
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