[sc34wg3] start-name production in CTM

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings!

I have been looking over the CTM draft that was submitted for Kyoto and 
have a question about the start-name production.

The production for name-start struck me as odd. For example, #x0300 - 
#x036F, Combining Diacritical Marks are omitted and then the next list 
begins with #x0370, which as of Unicode 5.0, has no character assigned 
to it. I curious why the XML definition of Name and NameChar weren't 
used by reference? I haven't worked down all the "|"'s yet but I am 
curious about the need to repeat what has already been defined 
elsewhere. I assume the code for that model must be lying all over the 
place.

I asked Lars Heuer about this and he suggested that I post this to the 
list. He did say that ":" should not appear in names because it is used 
for QName but XML has the same problem. As I recall, XML (4th edition) 
simply says that ":" is not allowed in names. Didn't bother to change 
the production.

The reason I ask is that I would assume that the code for handling XML 
Name and NameChar is probably all over the place. Unless there is some 
compelling reason to need a new definition of Name and NameChar.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)