Re: name="" deprecated in XHTML

Johannes Koch wrote:
> 
> David Woolley schrieb:
> 
>> (strictly speaking you could probably have both ID and NAME, with 
>> different values)
> 
> For a element, this is questionable.
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#adef-name-A>:

On reflection, you are right.  The intention of that part of the spec is 
to allow a transition to purely using ID.  I included the parenthesized 
bit as an afterthought to try and avoid someone picking that up as a 
fine detail, even though it would clearly have been bad practice, 
whatever the spec said (hence "in theory", to imply it was bad practice).
> 
>> Note that this attribute shares the same name space as the id attribute
> 
> I read this as: name and id attributes for the same a element must have 
> the same values.
> 

The important quote was actually:

the value of this attribute must be a unique anchor name.

which rules out the use of the same name value for multiple A elements.

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