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RE: Need Help: Creating XML Tag with ":"

• To: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Need Help: Creating XML Tag with ":"
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:53:53 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Need Help: Creating XML Tag with ":"

  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Gushee [mailto:mgushee@h...] 
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:17 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> 
>   1) Go ahead and use your markup with colons, but don't call it XML, 
>      and don't expect XML parsers to be able to process it (I guess
>      you'll have to write your own parser); or

XML 1.0 allows colons in names. It's the Namespaces in XML
recommendation that does not [without an explicit namespace
declaration]. Satish can look for an XML parser that either does not
support the XML namespaces or allows one to turn off support for this
feature. 

>   2) Use a different separator instead of a colon. Hyphens or periods
>      would work.

That is another feature. 

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