Re: Potential new TAG issue: Numeric LocalPart of QName held in attribute value

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 15:05 +0100, Misha Wolf wrote:
[...]
> the WG has decided to use QNames in attribute values to represent
> terms used as News metadata.

I don't endorse that decision, but...

> c)  the XML specification states that a NameStartChar cannot be a 
>     digit
> 
> What are the options?

I have run into this situation of wanting to use an integer
as an XML name. I prepend an underscore.

 rdf:ID="_1232"

works pretty good.


p.s. I don't really understand how this might be a new TAG issue.
It seems like a pretty low level XML syntax issue.


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Received on Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:16:55 UTC