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• Subject: Re: Invalid attribute names
• From: Toni Uusitalo <toni.uusitalo@p...>
• Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:14:46 +0200
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Spec 2.3 "Common Syntactic Constructs" says:

[4]  NameChar ::=  Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' | CombiningChar | 
Extender
[5]  Name ::=  (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*

Colon and underscore are valid name start characters.
I believe parsers shouldn't report this as a well-formedness error.



with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

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