Are all <a> and <area> nodes to be considered WebLinks

Dear httpunit developers,

bug report [ 1156972 ] isWebLink doesn't recognize all 
anchor tags
by fregienj contains:

"I would suggest changing ParsedHTML.isWebLink(Node)
from checking if the "href" attribute exists to
checking if the node name is equal-to-ignore-case "A".

return (node.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("A"));

Currently isWebLink does not pick up on links that only
use the onclick to go to a page. There's also no
currently way to find a <a name=> tag."

I have worked on this with
http://httpunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/httpunit?view=rev&revision=912

and not activated the change since it would break other 
test cases.

Currently the test case for this bugreport warns:
*** Test testFindNonHrefLinks() disabled: pending 
decision for bug report [ 1156972 ] -> does an <a> node 
to have href to be considered a link?

What is your opinion to the answer for this Question:
Does an <a> or <area> node to have href to be considered a link?


How should httpunit behave with respect to this 
question. So what should getLinks return for a response?

This may well lead to a compatibility issue and we might 
have to add a new version of getLinks or add an option 
that allows to switch to the old behaviour.

What do you think?

Yours
  Wolfgang

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