- From: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:16:20 +0000
- To: public-ixml@w3.org
Received on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:22:29 UTC
> A name starts with a letter or underscore, and continues with a letter, digit, underscore, a small > number of punctuation characters, and the Unicode combiner characters; Unicode classes are used > to define the sets of characters used, for instance, for letters and digits. This is close to, but > not identical with the XML definition of a name; it is the grammar author's responsibility to > ensure that all serialized names match the requirements for an XML name [XML]. It might be worth elaborating this in the FAQ to point out that iXML’s definition of a name is *very* close to the XML 5e definition. And a lot farther away from the earlier XML definitions, which alas, common parsers are still mostly using. Be seeing you, norm -- Norm Tovey-Walsh Saxonica
Received on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:22:29 UTC