Re: Converting a string to valid XHTML id?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 12/1/10 12:51 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > > collapsing two different strings to the same ID, resulting in
> > > > invalid html.
> >
> > I have no idea what those ids are for, but wouldn't a cryptographic hash
> > work as well?
>
> It is just the value of the id attribute, for example like this:
>
>     <span id="...">

Is the point of your function to create a syntactically valid XHTML id from a
string that is assumed to be unique within the context of the current document,
or is it to generate a syntactically valid, unique XHTML id every time it is
called (even when called multiple times with the same string)?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA