Formail, name attributes and HTML5 Forms

[dedalus]

Hi,

I'm wondering if using attribute's name values with "[ ]" in them, is valid HTML5 markup. This silly doubt because as far as I know it's true we should consider for the moment HTML5 a sort of "experimental" and so even more experimental are HTML5 validators ... but actually if I run a HTML5 document syntax check using BBEdit (a Mac OS text editor probably quite famous) for every value with [ ] I get red errors with this advice ... "... Value of attribute “name” for element “<input>” must begin with one of {A-Z,a-z} followed by zero or more of {A-Z,a-z,0-9,-,_,:,.}. But this is the HTML4.01 specs about attributes (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#h-6.2 the only one specs about this I've been able to find) ... and then, if I change the DTD using XHTML or HTML4.01 it's ok, no errors about name values ... (?!?) After all, not so clear, isn'it ?
So is it a good idea to use HTML5 document type and Forms and Formail ? I think yes, also seeing that W3C validator doesn't say anything about Value of attribute “name” ... and so on (of course having the chars [ ] in values).

Has anyone any better infos about this particular and not so exciting topic ?

[crabtree]

if the w3c validator says it's OK, I'd go with that.

also, u only need [] if u want to create array fields (lists)

[dedalus]

if the w3c validator says it's OK, I'd go with that.

I completely agree ... : )