Re: Names, Nmtokens, and Namespaces

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>]

The xml should be correct -a  NMTOKEN  can include colons:

"[4]    NameChar    ::=    Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' |
CombiningChar | Extender
[5]    Name    ::=    (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*
[6]    Names    ::=    Name (S Name)*
[7]    Nmtoken    ::=    (NameChar)+
[8]    Nmtokens    ::=    Nmtoken (S Nmtoken)* "

(from the XML Rec).

Just to confirm, RXP was happy with your example.  It must be a parser bug.

Tom P

Ronald Bourret said -

> I have the following document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE foo [
>    <!ELEMENT foo EMPTY>
>    <!ATTLIST foo
>              bar NMTOKEN #REQUIRED>
> ]>
> <foo bar="b:baz"/>
>
> When running it through the Oracle parser version 2, it returns an
> error:
>
...

> The error does not occur if I remove the b: in the value of the bar
> attribute:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE foo [
>    <!ELEMENT foo EMPTY>
>    <!ATTLIST foo
>              bar NMTOKEN #REQUIRED>
> ]>
> <foo bar="baz"/>
>