Can an html element have multiple ids?

Question

I understand that an id must be unique within an HTML/XHTML page.

My question is, for a given element, can I assign multiple ids to it?

Answer 1

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

The id attribute assigns a unique identifier to an element (which may be verified by an SGML parser).

and

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

So "id" must be unique and can't contain a space.