RE: [xsl] E [Xerces] Attribute value "1" of type ID must be an NCName when namespaces are enabled.

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

At 02:15 PM 8/17/2009, you wrote:
> > But my informant could elucidate neither (a) why a naming
> > rule for files should be applied to elements in SGML, nor (b)
> > why IBM even had this naming rules for files.
>
> If it's related to IBM file names (wash my mouth, I mean dataset names), I
> would have expected to see the length of an ID restricted to 8 characters!

This could be done in the SGML declaration, and commonly was.

"Dataset names", ah.

Cheers,
Wendell



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