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• Subject: Re: another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:58:35 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Rick Jones wrote:

> Why do the the values of an ID attribute have to start with something
> besides a number? 

Inherited from SGML.  No other real good reason for it. -Tim

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