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RE: another naieve question - valid characters for ID values

• To: <raj@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:47:26 -0700
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• Thread-topic: another naieve question - valid characters for ID values

Simple Answer: Because the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation says so. 
 
Long Answer: I dunno, ask one of the people on XML 1.0 working group. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Rick Jones [mailto:rick_jones2@h...] 
	Sent: Wed 8/7/2002 10:42 AM 
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	Subject:  another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
	
	

	So, at the risk of stumbling across another point of contention between
	programmers and writers :)
	
	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)?
	
	rick jones
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