On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: > I like prepending a string, for example target= or triplet=, etc.
Okay. However,... On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > If "*-*-solaris2*" should appear as/in the "name" attribute of an <a>, > prepending a name start character is not enough, because this attribute > is of type NMTOKEN. Therefore it cannot contain * at all. ...if we are absolutely disallowed to use "*", probably just replacing "*" by "x" without any prefix might be the lesser of all evils? > If international character sets in XHTML are o.K., maybe there are > some letter sets to choose from. Here is a sample. I feel this might be worse, because it'll look as if everything was okay, but when someone copies and pastes the string, it won't work as a proper target string. (Thanks for your expert input, by the way.) Okay? Gerald