Re: Converting a string to valid XHTML id?

[Lennart Borgman]

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="...">