- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:53:35 -0600
- To: Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov@jfinity.com>, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov@jfinity.com> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there isn't an operational need for a qname to
> have a non-empty local-part.
Unfortunately, this is in violation of the XML names spec:
QName ::= (Prefix ':')? LocalPart
NCName ::= (Letter | '_') (NCNameChar)*
I'm no BNF expert but I think this means that a qname must start with at
least one letter (or an underscore).
However, you're right -- it does work in most parsers.
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