XHTML links and comment RSS feeds

I’ve just fixed a small bug in the Carsurvey.org comments pages, which may result in old comments reappearing in RSS readers.

Basically XHTML (which Carsurvey.org is), doesn’t allow for the name attribute of links (used to jump to part of a long document) to start with a number. The previous numeric name attributes have now had the letter c added to their names, which makes everything valid, but may cause RSS readers to treat the updated feeds as if they contain new comments. Apologies to anyone who gets caught out by that. It’s a one off change, in order to make the pages fully validate.

This change also applies to the motorcycle and mobile phone sites.

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