Re: Re: [xsl] List of illegal characters for element, attribute, and variable names.

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/1/06, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I saw both of them, but I must confess that I am unable to extract a list of
prohibited characters from either.

I think you might struggle to create a definitive list of prohibited
characters - there are a lot of characters...

The list of allowed characters is pretty straight forward though - an
unprefixed QName must start with a letter (and not a digit), then any
mix of letters, digits, '-', '_' or '.'