Re: [xml] xml element name question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:45:30AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Could someone point me to a simple reference on XML element names?
>
> I need to know if numerical tags are legal...
>
> Something like this:
>
> <1> ... </1>
>
> ISTR reading somethere that they are not, but I need to be able to 
> confirm it.  I've tried to read the w3.org docs but they are far over my 
> head....

  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name

  Name     ::=          (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*

it is very clear that you cannot start with a number.
May I suggest to still try to understand those specs before trying to
make design based on them ? It may hurt a bit, but failing to understand
the spec and shipping a broken implementation or client hurts *a lot*.

Daniel

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