Re: [xml] ATTRIBUTE NAME validation problem

[massimo morara <m morara 3di it>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> murali wrote:
> > <!ATTLIST doc : CDATA #IMPLIED>
> >
> > is a valid declaration of attribute ":" for element doc.
> >
> > But , currently LIBXML2 generates a error when it encounters this.
>
> well, that's just because ':' isn't really a well-formed attribute name. So
> you're actually lucky libxml2 tells you that, otherwise you'd generate XML
> that no parser can parse.

        Are you sure?

        In W3c XML 1.0 Recommendation (4th edition), "2.3 Common 
Syntactic Constructs", i read

        Note: The Namespaces in XML Recommendation [XML Names] assigns a
meaning to names containing colon characters. Therefore, authors should
not use the colon in XML names except for namespace purposes, but XML
processors must accept the colon as a name character.

        ":" is surely a censurable attribute name, but why you say that 
isn't well-formed?

                massimo morara
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