Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/07/06 23:57

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:07:29 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200608@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>Andy Dingley wrote:
>
>> <div id="header"> can't be repeated. Its "headerness" is ordinal, i.e.
>> it doesn't state "This is a header, potentially one of many that also
>> have header status" it states "This is _the_ header".
>
>No, it states "this is a div".

That's what <div> means. Now what about the id value? As far as we
can draw any semantics out of HTML, and as far as we can infer from a ID
namespace into a human-readable semantic domain, then the id means
something in addition to this.

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