Re: ISSUE-2260 (id-value-when-not-present): Value of SVGElement::id not defined when there is no id="" attribute present [SVG Full 1.1] from Cameron McCormack on 2009-04-13 (public-svg-wg@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:57:11 +1000
To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <20090413235711.GC20519@arc.mcc.id.au>

SVG Working Group Issue Tracker:
> ISSUE-2260 (id-value-when-not-present): Value of SVGElement::id not
> defined when there is no id="" attribute present [SVG Full 1.1]
…
> The value of the SVGElement::id attribute is not defined when there
> is no id="" attribute present on the element. Probably we should
> backport the behaviour from 1.2T, which says that the value is null.
> (Or perhaps check what HTML 5 defines / what implementations do.)

The intention in HTML 5 is for HTMLElement::id to return an empty string
when the id="" attribute is not present.

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

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