State of the art in anchors?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

Lots of templates in the XSL stylesheets attempt to generate
<a name="xxx"> where it would be more convenient to just output
IDs. 

For example:

<ul>
<li id="itemid"><p>Some content</p></li>
</ul>

instead of

<ul>
<li><p><a name="itemid">Some content</p></li>
</ul>

Are IDs on any (X)HTML element considered widely enough supported
now to rely on only the ID attribute markup? 

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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