Specifying numbers as attribute values

John E. Simpson simpson at polaris.net
Fri May 21 21:40:43 BST 1999


At 12:11 PM 05/21/1999 -0700, Mallikarjuna Sangappa wrote:
>Is it possible to specify numbers as attribute values
>in a XML DTD. 

In absolute terms, yes. But in relative terms, one has to add, "well, it
depends...." In this case it depends on the attribute type. IDs can't be
numeric only, for instance -- they've got to at least *start* with a name
character.
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