- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:14:04 +0000
- To: RGerber@iworksoftware.com
- CC: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Hi Raymond,
> Is there a formal statement regarding the use of spaces in XML
> Element names?
Yes. The XML 1.0 Recommendation [1] states that element names must be
Names. Names adhere to the following BNF:
Name ::= (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*
NameChar ::= Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' |
CombiningChar | Extender
None of Letter, Digit, CombiningChar or Extender contain spaces.
Therefore element names cannot contain spaces.
XML Schema does not change the basic syntax of XML - you cannot use
XML Schema to specify elements with spaces in their names.
Cheers,
Jeni
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/
Received on Monday, 12 November 2001 05:14:09 UTC