Re: Ability to disable URL mangling in makeinfo 4.7?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:38:56AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Are we restricted to the set of a-z0-9_- also for anchors?  Given our
> > experience, all web clients seem to support at least '*' as well.
> 
> In XHTML, the name= attribute is of type id, and thus can only contain
> a-z0-9_-

(I searched w3.org and it seems that A-Z is allowed too?
But I'm probably missing something.)

Thank you very much for your explanation.  This limitation is very
restrictive.  Of course, I see now that the mangling should be the same
for filenames as for anchors.

Thank you again for teaching me.  Perhaps it would help to document
this reasoning somewhere, so that you can only send a link to it when
this FAQ comes again.  (I don't volunteer to write it, sorry.)

Have a nice day,
   Stepan Kasal