xml-dev - RE: Attribute type NMTOKEN

[Russ Heithoff <russ@thetrip.com>]

Also, if I remember right, a NMTOKEN can start with Name characters.  This 
is in contrast to a Name which must start with Name Start characters 
followed by characters.  In otherwords 1ABC is a legal NMTOKEN but not a 
legal NAME.


Russ


-----Original Message-----
From:	John E. Simpson [SMTP:simpson@polaris.net]
Sent:	Friday, May 08, 1998 3:25 PM
To:	xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Attribute type NMTOKEN

At 04:25 PM 5/8/98 -0400, Chris Maden wrote:
>[John E. Simpson]
>> As I understand it (would appreciate being corrected if wrong),
>> NMTOKEN essentially applies a constraint on the form of the
>> attribute's value (i.e.  value must be a valid name token -- start
>> with either a letter or an underscore) without constraining the
>> *specific* value. So yes, your "open-ended or... too big to list"
>> assumption is correct, with the qualification that a type of NMTOKEN
>> would not allow a value such as "1ABC," "//ENGLISH," or
>> "  WHITESPACE."
>
>A possible misunderstanding here: a NMTOKEN itself can't contain
>whitespace, but the attribute value specification, the quoted thing
>after the equals sign, can: so
><my-element my-name-token="  WHITESPACE">
>*is* a valid NMTOKEN attribute specification.  The NMTOKEN in this
>example is only "WHITESPACE", though; the leading (and trailing)
>whitespace is trimmed.

Thanks for that clarification, Chris!

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