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Re: Invalid attribute names

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• Subject: Re: Invalid attribute names
• From: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:04:28 +0400 (AMT)
• In-reply-to: <20040101080823.GA32690@m...>

> Liam Quin scripsit:
> 
> > Furthermore, a name starting with
> > a colon isn't a legal "name" token in XML, so they syntax doesn't
> > allow that either.
> 
> In fact it is: colon is a NameStart character.
> 

And in a namespace-aware XML parser, Name is not used for elements or attributes,
QName is (from XML Namespaces). Isn't it a mess?

David

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