Thanks. That is as simple and clear as I could have asked for.
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 1 May 2006 15:53:57 +0100
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: Re:  List of illegal characters for element, attribute, and variable names.

On 5/1/06, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I saw both of them, but I must confess that I am unable to extract a list of prohibited characters from either.

I think you might struggle to create a definitive list of prohibited
characters - there are a lot of characters...

The list of allowed characters is pretty straight forward though - an
unprefixed QName must start with a letter (and not a digit), then any
mix of letters, digits, '-', '_' or '.'