Re: Converting a string to valid XHTML id?

[Davis Herring]

> That sounds tempting but is wrong :-/ Percent-encoding doesn't produce
> valid  ID values. From the html 4 specs:
>
>  6.2 SGML basic types
>
>   ....
>
>  ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
>  followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
>  underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

If you're referring to the leading letter, you're right -- I forgot about
it.  Easy enough to fix: also use Lennart's "ANON-" prefix when the string
begins with a non-letter or with the string "ANON-".

Or is there something more fundamental that I'm missing?

Davis

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