[Twisted-web] Re: [Nevow-commits] Replace ID generator values with IDs based on context.key. Group

[Matt Goodall]

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

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