Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > Just upgraded to 3.6.1, now that I have been allotted time to > concentrate on a DITA test project <g> > > First question: whatever combination of letters and/or numbers I use as > an arbitrary ID, validation always fails. It looks to me as though the > ID has to be of type NMTOKEN ? which, according to w3c, is "any mixture > of name characters". Tips on resolving this will be appreciated! >
I found this in the W3C recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/): --- Values of type ID MUST match the Name production. [4] NameChar ::= Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' | CombiningChar | Extender [5] Name ::= (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)* --- This is clearly not "any mixture of name characters". --- PS: Strangely, W3C XML Schema (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#ID) is *more* *restrictive* (???) xsd:ID is defined as follows: [Definition:] ID represents the ID attribute type from [XML 1.0 (Second Edition)]. The ?value space? of ID is the set of all strings that ?match? the NCName production in [Namespaces in XML]. The ?lexical space? of ID is the set of all strings that ?match? the NCName production in [Namespaces in XML]. The ?base type? of ID is NCName. [4] NCName ::= (Letter | '_') (NCNameChar)* /*XML Name minus the ":"*/
