Re: Suggestion for RM HTML formatter extension

[Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid>]

El 11/05/2012 17:32, Simon Wright escribió:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen<sparre@nbi.dk>  writes:
>>...
>> If I could write<http://www.adaic.org/rm05/9.7.3#6>  and people would
>> end up at paragraph 6 in section 9.7.3 of the Ada05 reference manual, it
>> would be much easier than linking to the whole section and then writing
>> that people have to scroll down to paragraph 6.
>
> I'd have thought that would be straightforward enough .. the paragraph
> numbers are in a div with class paranum. A simple patch means I can
> write<RM-A-3-2.html#p13/2>  for para 13/2 of the 2005 manual (I'm not at
> all sure of the legality of that slash, but Safari and Chrome are happy!!).

Is seems that p13/2 as a "name" target is legal in HTML, but not in 
XHTML. In addition, IIUC the use of the "name" attribute is deprecated 
in favor of the "id" one, and XHTML5 even has dropped it.

"id" values don't allow slashes. But slashes could be easily converted 
to hyphens or underscores, if browser standard compliance really 
matters. So we could write <RM-A-3-2.html#p13-2>, for instance

In addition, if old and new browsers have to be supported, I believe it 
is also possible to have both "id" and "name" target attributes with 
exactly the same, duplicated value.

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Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado