AttValue within XPointer ?

Eve L. Maler elm at arbortext.com
Wed Apr 8 03:46:43 BST 1998


Sorry -- this is a known bug in the example in the spec; there should be
quotes (or we should examine the syntax).  We'll fix it next time around.

	Eve

At 12:14 PM 4/4/98 -0500, Patrice Bonhomme wrote:
>
><Hi/>
>
>I had a look at the brand new XML XPointer specification and something is
not 
>clear to me.  Some of the XPointer examples are not conformant to the XML 
>Language specification.
>
>I am not sure that an attribute value can start with a digit. And some 
>examples are:
>
>child(1,#element,N,2).(1,#element,N,1)
>ancestor(1,#element,N,1).(1,DIV)
>etc...
>
>I think they should be written (with the attribute value as a "SkipLit"):
>
>child(1,#element,N,"2").(1,#element,N,"1")
>ancestor(1,#element,N,"1").(1,DIV)
>
>Could the editors of the XPtr Spec. precise the definition of the NAME 
>production.
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>Pat.

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