Maybe the name attribute of the <a> element was used as a way of targetting other links to a certain part of the page using a fragment, instead of using the id attribute as it should (because the ID is unique, but the name not). Maybe this was shlomi telling about...
Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Musgrove" <mr.musk...@gmail.com> To: "Shlomi Fish" <shlo...@shlomifish.org> Cc: "Derek Price" <de...@ximbiot.com>; "Perl Module Authors List" <module-authors@perl.org> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Text::MediawikiFormat Problems. > Just an FYI... > In HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0, name is a perfectly valid attribute in both the > strict and traditional DTD. See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp for > a complete list of supported anchor attributes. > In HTML5, name is not a valid attribute. See > http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_a.asp and > http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_ref_globalattributes.asp for more > details. > > > Matt > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > >> Hi Derek, >> >> thanks for Text::MediawikiFormat and your other CPAN work. >> >> I've ran into the following problems when trying to use >> Text::MediawikiFormat : >> >> 1. It generates non-valid XHTML/HTML with <a name="..." tags etc. instead >> of >> id="..." attributes. HTML tidy does not help much with it. I'd like to fix >> it. >> >> 2. On http://metacpan.org/module/Text::MediawikiFormat you say that it can >> also generate XML and DocBook, but it does not specify how to do that >> exactly. >> >> 3. There are several active bugs in >> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Text-MediawikiFormat . >> Why haven't they been resolved yet? >> >> 4. There hasn't been a release from you to CPAN since 2008. >> >> -------------------- >> >> If necessary, then I volunteer to help maintain Text::MediawikiFormat , >> but I >> would prefer some guidance and approval from you. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl >> >> Chuck Norris writes understandable Perl code. >> >> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >> >
