Also allow manual id overrides from the JSON config. Sluggin avoids errors like: Bad value '#Possible bugs' for attribute href on element a: Whitespace in fragment component. Use %20 in place of spaces. from http://validator.w3.org. I tried just quoting the titles (e.g. 'Possible%20bugs'), but that didn't work (at least with Firefox 24.2.0). Slugging avoids any ambiguity over when the quotes are expanded in the client. The specs are unclear about quoting, saying only [1]: Value: Any string, with the following restrictions: must be at least one character long must not contain any space characters [1]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/global-attributes.html#common.attrs.id --- devel/nmbug/nmbug-status | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status index 2b1f364..989d065 100755 --- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status +++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2 import json import argparse import os +import re import sys import subprocess @@ -168,16 +169,20 @@ class Page (object): class HtmlPage (Page): + _slug_regexp = re.compile('\W+') + def _write_header(self, views, stream): super(HtmlPage, self)._write_header(views=views, stream=stream) stream.write('<ul>\n') for view in views: + if 'id' not in view: + view['id'] = self._slug(view['title']) stream.write( - '<li><a href="#{title}">{title}</a></li>\n'.format(**view)) + '<li><a href="#{id}">{title}</a></li>\n'.format(**view)) stream.write('</ul>\n') def _write_view_header(self, view, stream): - stream.write('<h3 id="{title}">{title}</h3>\n'.format(**view)) + stream.write('<h3 id="{id}">{title}</h3>\n'.format(**view)) if 'comment' in view: stream.write(view['comment']) stream.write('\n') @@ -224,6 +229,9 @@ class HtmlPage (Page): ).format(**d) return (running_data, display_data) + def _slug(self, string): + return self._slug_regexp.sub('-', string) + _PAGES['text'] = Page() _PAGES['html'] = HtmlPage( -- 1.8.5.2.8.g0f6c0d1