[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@comcast.net
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:04:54 -0400


[Henry S. Thompson]

Wow, Henry, this is a real contribution - who would want to compile that RE
by hand?  Is there not a typo in the last bit, though?

> <simpleType name="NCName">
>  <restriction base="Name">
>   <pattern value="[^:][^:]*"/>
>  </restriction>
> </simpleType>
>

The XML Namespaces Rec says that an NCName is

 NCName ::= (Letter | '_') (NCNameChar)*

but you have it equivalent to

 NCName ::= (NCNameChar) (NCNameChar)*

Cheers,

Tom P