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Posted to c-dev@xerces.apache.org by Craig Noah <Cr...@ca.com> on 2000/09/06 22:01:57 UTC

Re: Attribute name

The error message is correct.  Attribute names must be valid Names (think of
variable names).  This means they must start with a letter, an underscore (_), or
a colon (:) and may be followed by any number of alphanumeric characters
(basically ASCII text).

ayyachamy.nagaiahsamy@convergys.com wrote:

> Is Attribute name in an ATTLIST of a DTD starting with number, a valid one?
>
> example:
>
> <!ELEMENT sample EMPTY>
> <! ATTLIST sample
>      2test CDATA #IMPLIED
>      4example CDATA #IMPLIED>
>
> 2test, 4example  a valid attribute name?
>
> When used, It gives me an error saying the name contains illegal chars.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -Nagy

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