- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Mar 2003 12:44:10 +0000
- To: "Simon Cox" <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>
- Cc: "Hugh Wallis" <hugh_wallis@hyperion.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Simon Cox" <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> writes:
> I often wondered about this.
> When to use "token", and when "Name"?
> What is the intended difference?
'token' differs from 'string' only in whitespace processing -- string
does none, token does the maximum. 'Name' differs from 'token' in
that it restricts the contents to be an XML Name, starting with a
namestart character and containing only name characters.
So "$%%*!" is a token, but not a Name.
ht
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