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• Subject: Re: Newby question
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:30:10 -0400
• References: <002501c24a90$e445a230$741eb4b4@saf116>

[Carlos Vicente]
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in the DTD file I have something like:

(...)
<!ELEMENT A EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST A id ID #REQUIRED>
(...)

in the XML file I'de like that "id" would be a number!... But everytime I do
this without any other caracter I receive a validation error telling me that
that the value in ID must be a name or name token. Does this means that id
of type ID can't receive just numbers?
]]

That is correct.  The value of an attribute of type ID must follow the rules
for an element name in XML - among other things they cannot start with a
number.  There are historical  reasons for this rule, but it can be annoying
sometimes.

Cheers,

Tom P

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