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Portillo, Christina wrote: > I need some clarification on the differences in the naming rules defined > in the XML SGML Declaration and the Naming Rules defined in XML Part 1 > Names and Tokens. It's important to understand that the SGML declaration for XML is not normative. In case of conflict, the XML specification rules. > My understanding of the Name restricts the 1st character position to a > letter or a underscore or colon which is in sync with the SGML > Declaration. But the NameChar allows underscores and colons in the > remaining character positions which is at variance with the naming rules > defined by the SGML Declaration. While I am not an SGML mavin, it seems clear that everything declared as a NAMESTRT character is also valid as a NAMECHAR character. The characters explicitly listed in NAMECHAR are the non-ASCII digits, combining marks, and modifier letters, plus the FULL STOP and HYPHEN-MINUS. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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