I saw both of them, but I must confess that I am unable to extract a list of prohibited characters from either.
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 1 May 2006 15:28:06 +0100
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: [xsl] List of illegal characters for element, attribute, and variable names.

QNames: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-QName

Or a more simple version for unqualified names (perhaps to start
with): http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags



On 5/1/06, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm preparing some training materials for a group without much exposure to XML. I started to write about what form a name (for an element, attribute, or variable) can take. Specifically, what characters are not permitted. It was easy at first, but then I realized I should find an authoritative source. I googled, but came up empty. Either I asked for the wrong thing, or I couldn't recognize the right thing when I saw it. Can someone point me to a resource? Thanks.
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> Charles Knell
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