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• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:35:24 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20011214165654.024959b0@p...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>13. What's wrong with ASCII digits as name start chars, given
>    that all sorts of other digits are going in?

XPath and probably some other languages rely on digits not being
name starts for their tokenizing.  Compare a[b] and a[1].

I think it would be a mistake to change the name-start status of any
of the standard ASCII characters.

-- Richard

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