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Note, there are no formal definition for allowed id syntax (are ANY chars really allowed except whitespace?). Look at 4.01 specs, it is very clear
(In reply to comment #0) > are ANY chars > really allowed except whitespace? Yes.
There is an unambiguous definition of the allowed id syntax: "The value must be unique amongst all the IDs in the element's home subtree and must contain at least one character. The value must not contain any space characters." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#the-id-attribute The requirements seem perfectly clear, so I'm going to assume you thought this was an actual omission in the spec (maybe due to other specs' tendency to use formal grammars for everything). Since there is no such omission, I'm resolving the bug as INVALID. If you actually think the id attribute's allowed values need to be defined in some other way, please reopen the bug and the editor will look at it in due course (although he'll probably close WONTFIX unless you give very good arguments).
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