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>A possible misunderstanding here: a NMTOKEN itself can't contain >whitespace, but the attribute value specification, the quoted thing >after the equals sign, can: so ><my-element my-name-token=" WHITESPACE"> >*is* a valid NMTOKEN attribute specification. The NMTOKEN in this >example is only "WHITESPACE", though; the leading (and trailing) >whitespace is trimmed. You're right of course, but I had a devil of a job discovering why! This is one example of the spec being terribly unhelpful: it says quite clearly (in section 3.3.1): "Values of type NMTOKEN must match the Nmtoken production...", and then qualifies this in section 3.3.3, by saying in effect: "the value I was talking about in section 3.3.1 isn't the "attribute value" defined in section 3.1 as you might have thought, rather it's the "normalized attribute value" defined as follows..." Next time round could we please have a bit more rigour in the spec!? Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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