Justin Lipton wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious about the use of the colon character (":") in IDs -
> As far as I can tell the spec says that they are permitted but not
> recommended.
Which spec? ;)
XML Schema spec requires IDs to be of type NCName that forbits the use
of ":".
XML 1.0 spec, on the other hand, defines IDs of type Name, allowing
colon char.
> Xerces 1.4.0's XMLCharacterProperties.validName method returns true for
> IDs containing ||colons - yet when the document is parsed an error is
> returned.
XMLCharactersProperties conforms to XML 1.0.
However, it is an error for XML Schema to have an ID with colon char.
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Elena Litani / IBM Toronto
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