2 suggestions

[Georg Bauhaus]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
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>>I like prepending a string, for example target= or triplet=, etc.
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>Okay.  However,...
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>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
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>>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.
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>...if we are absolutely disallowed to use "*", probably just replacing
>"*" by "x" without any prefix might be the lesser of all evils?
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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.
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>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.)
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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