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Hi Raja,
rajac wrote:
>
> Is it possible to have the Element like <ged.corba.Node> in XML?.
> The reason is to make the definition of each Element (structure)
> stricter because if you had XML that combined different Elements
> from different DTD's, there would be no fear of clashes. To be
> more specific, to differentiate each element in such a way that
> the Element belongs to which DTD.
>
The short answer is yes - see section 3.1, rule 40 of the XML
Recommendation for "start tag" syntax [1], drill down to rule 5 for
"name" syntax [2], then follow to rule 4 for NameChars [3] where "." is
explicitly permitted.
A more complete and possibly helpful answer is that there is in fact a
mechanism for doing exactly what you need, called XML Namespaces [4].
There is also a very good explanatory article [5] by James Clark.
Hope this helps -
Francis.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-stag
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Name
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-NameChar
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
[5] http://www.jclark.com/xml/xmlns.htm
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