• From: Rob Lugt <roblugt@e...>
• To: "Anderson, John" <John@B...>,"Xml-Dev (E-mail)" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:14:40 +0100

John Anderson wrote
>
> According to my reading of XML1.0, the following would be an illegal
> declaration:
>
> <!ATTLIST pangolin color ( |green|blue|red) >
>
> because enumerations must be made up of nmtokens, and a nmtoken must
contain
> at least one namechar.
>
> However, most parsers seem to accept this.

Are you sure most parsers accept this?  I tried it using MSXML3, Xerces and
the ElCel XML Validator and they all (correctly) complained.  It would seem
that the parsers you have tried are incorrect, but I don't think they
represent the majority.

Regards
~Rob

--
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
http://www.elcel.com/

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