xml-dev - Re: Syntax Questions

[Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>]

[Samuel R. Blackburn]
> It says there can be only one top level element in a document.  The
> spec says in section 2.1 that a document contains one or more
> elements.

Eh?
   Document                                                          
   [1]  document ::= prolog element Misc*                 

> MSXML doesn't like multiple colons in an element name. It will not
> parse the following:
> 
> <I:Love:Cookies>With Milk</I:Love:Cookies>
> 
> But rules 4 and 5 do not impose this restriction.

The namespaces spec (<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/>) does.
MSXML implements XML+namespaces; there's no requirement that all XML
parsers do, but it's probably a good idea to at least follow the
syntactic restrictions, since colons in XML 1.0 names are reserved for
experimental use pending publication of the namespaces Recommendation,
which has since happened.

-Chris
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