- From: Martijn Pieters <mj@digicool.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:13:22 +0100
- To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > >For example, is ':localName' malformed or is ':' an invalid character in > >this case. > >Is 'foo:bar:baz' malformed, or again, is one colon an invalid character? > > These names are legal, though ill-advised, in basic XML. They > aren'twell-formed QNames, so they're illegal in Namespaces. NAMESPACE_ERR > would seem most accurate and most helpful to the developer. Thanks for the clarification. We'll raise NAMESPACE_ERR on invalid colon use. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@digicool.com | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------
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