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RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters
• From: "Praj Joshi" <pjoshi@m...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:11:53 -0700
• Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>,"Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,"XML DEV" <xml-dev@l...>,"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
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Oops, I agree. I misinterpreted the namespaces spec. (I have done this
many times before!)

This bogus error is not fixed in MSXML30 SP3 then.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:06 AM
To: Praj Joshi
Cc: Henry S. Thompson; Joshua Allen; Julian Reschke; XML DEV; Dare
Obasanjo
Subject: Re:  MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

Praj Joshi scripsit:

> What do you mean by bogus error here?
> 
> According to the namespaces spec
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames)
> 
> *********************
> Namespace Constraint: Leading "XML"
> Prefixes beginning with the three-letter sequence x, m, l, in any case
> combination, are reserved for use by XML and XML-related
specifications.
> *********************

What that means is that you are not allowed to make up your own prefixes
like "xmlsucks", not that you can't use or declare the standardized
prefix "xml".

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I think I best switch to RELAX NG.

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