Attribute references

[Michel Fortin]

Le 9 janv. 2005, à 16:40, european bob a écrit :

> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:19 -0500, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> I think it's a lot better this way:
>>
>> 	## My Intriguing Header ## {id="intrigue"}
>>
>> 	This is a link to [my intriguing header](#intrigue).
>>
>> Or this way:
>>
>> 	## My Intriguing Header ## {#intrigue}
>>
>> 	This is a link to [my intriguing header](#intrigue).
>
> Actually, I don't like either of those :) If you're going to link using
> this references, they should turn into internal anchors - which are not
> tag ids.
>
> I'm not sure John was suggesting using this to be able to setup 
> internal
> links, but it would be nice in a way I think. It feels a little bit
> dodgy though.

Hum, I think this should be clarified a bit. The output expected from 
these two examples is this:

	<h2 id="intrigue">My Intriguing Header</h2>

	<p>This is a link to <a href="#intrigue">my intriguing header</a>.</p>

There is not conversion going on with the link's URL. `#intrigue` *is* 
the URL that is inside the href attribute. When you do a link to an url 
starting with a hash (`#`), it tells the browser to move *in the 
current page* to the element with the corresponding "id" attribute.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
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