name is also valid in the fragment

[ptarjan]

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[gre]

What's the need of this?

The problem here is you can't assume the name attribute is unique inside a page.
As I know, only the id attribute has to be unique in the DOM.

Maybe you could adapt the loop check (done for the id generation) to add a incremental number at the end of the name.

[ptarjan]

Why do you care about uniqueness? I thought you wanted an identifier that will work as a fragment? Name works great for that.

http://ogp.me/#type_music.song

[gre]

My point was:
What's happen if we have multiple same name in the page? Does the anchor only work for one of them?
Could we assume the page doesn't have multiple same name?
And also, does it work on IE?