Re: [xml] Possible problem in xmlValidateQName

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:39:08PM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    While testing xmlValidateQName if I pass :xsi:nspace as an input, I am
>    getting a failure. However the spec states that:-
>
>    ï                    Characters  ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start
>    characters.
>
>    So  considering  this  :xsi:nspace should be a valid qname? Or is this
>    behaviour ok, because of name space considerations.

  yes for namespace consideration ':' has a special handling, 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames

see also the second Note in
    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn

Daniel

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