Re: Is that your intention?

At 05:17 PM 8/10/99 +0200, Maier, Thomas;   2684 wrote:
>in productions [4] and [5], where you describe, how names are built, you use
>quite strange rules (if I understand them correctly):
>
> * A name (after [5]) can start with '_'. And it may there be finished? So a
>name as '_' can be built? Is this your intention?
>
> * In the same manner: A name can be ':'. Is this your intention?
>
> * A name (according to [5] and [4]) can start with '_' and can be continued
>with zero or more occurrences of '_', so a name can be '_____'. In similar
>manner a name can be '_:.-_' or some different combinations of those
>characters. Is this your intention?

I believe your interpretation is correct, and existing XML software
would agree with me.  The notion of "_:.-_" hadn't occurred to me, but
it's amusing.  

The usage of the ":" character is limited initially though by the warning 
text in the "Note" just before production [4], and very strongly by
the subsequent "Namespaces in XML" at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names

 -Tim

>
>
>If this is in each case your intention, ok. Then I must adopt these quiet
>unusual rules.
>If this is not your intention, the production rules should be changed to
>reflect your intention.
>
>It would be nice to read an answer from you - even when I'm wrong.
>
>
>With kind regards
>
>Thomas Seb. Maier
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 10 August 1999 11:59:45 UTC