Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
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?
Or maybe 'X' for better disambiguation in hpux* -> hpuxX,
x-box vs X-box, linux*, etc.
Or '.' as Hugh suggested? ('^' leads to a type mismatch in XML.)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.)
True, perhaps the text that is substituted for the triplet should look sufficiently unfamiliar in URLs. (BTW no expert here, just frequent encounters with SGML and XML.)
-- Georg
