> From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:57 AM
>
> I know of one case where <object> is used with the name
> attribute -- you can find it in the Java Apiref
> specialization plugin for the toolkit, in the doc/ directory.
> Here's an example from those files:
>
> <object
> classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11"
> codebase="hhctrl.ocx#Version=4,73,8412,0"
> codetype="VIEWASTEXT"
> height="100"
> id="hhctrl"
> name="Sample"
> type="application/x-oleobject"
> width="100">
>
> It's used this way several times. I don't know that I've seen
> anybody else using the attribute.
But what does the name attribute _do_?
According to the DITA specification it is for forms, but DITA does not
have forms.
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/langspec/object.html
Paul Prescod