On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:39:08PM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> While testing xmlValidateQName if I pass :xsi:nspace as an input, I am
> getting a failure. However the spec states that:-
>
> � Characters ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start
> characters.
>
> So considering this :xsi:nspace should be a valid qname? Or is this
> behaviour ok, because of name space considerations.
yes for namespace consideration ':' has a special handling,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames
see also the second Note in
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn
Daniel
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