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Re: [xml-dev] another naieve question - valid characters for ID values

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To: raj@cup.hp.com
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
In-reply-to: <3D515BF2.8F236F15@hp.com> from "Rick Jones" at Aug 07, 2002 10:42:10 AM

Rick Jones scripsit:

> Why do the the values of an ID attribute have to start with something
> besides a number? That is to say, why can't they be simply numbers? Or
> have I encountered a limitation of the parser I'm using (libxml2)?

Thus it was in SGML, and thus it is in XML today.  More practically,
it's better to be able to assume that names and numbers are distinguishable
in contexts like XPath.

-- 
John Cowan
        jcowan@reutershealth.com
                I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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- another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
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