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At 02:13 PM 5/8/98 +0200, Ron Bourret wrote: >Why does the attribute type NMTOKEN exist and how is it intended to be used? My >best guess is that it is the same as an enumerated type, except that the >enumeration is not actually specified in the DTD, perhaps because it is meant to >be open-ended or is too big to list, such as all words in the English language. >Is this true? As I understand it (would appreciate being corrected if wrong), NMTOKEN essentially applies a constraint on the form of the attribute's value (i.e. value must be a valid name token -- start with either a letter or an underscore) without constraining the *specific* value. So yes, your "open-ended or... too big to list" assumption is correct, with the qualification that a type of NMTOKEN would not allow a value such as "1ABC," "//ENGLISH," or " WHITESPACE." xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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