xml-dev - Re: Naming Rules

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Portillo, Christina wrote:
 
> I need some clarification on the differences in the naming rules defined
> in the XML SGML Declaration and the Naming Rules defined in XML Part 1
> Names and Tokens.

It's important to understand that the SGML declaration for XML
is not normative.  In case of conflict, the XML specification rules.
 
> My understanding of the Name restricts the 1st character position to a
> letter or a underscore or colon which is in sync with the SGML
> Declaration. But the NameChar allows underscores and colons in the
> remaining character positions which is at variance with the naming rules
> defined by the SGML Declaration.

While I am not an SGML mavin, it seems clear that everything declared
as a NAMESTRT character is also valid as a NAMECHAR character.
The characters explicitly listed in NAMECHAR are the non-ASCII digits,
combining marks, and modifier letters, plus the FULL STOP and HYPHEN-MINUS.

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	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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