[x3d-public] Major stumbling block in X3DJSAIL. NMTOKEN regexp

[yottzumm at gmail.com]

My confusion.  The previous conversation was about ’-‘.  It probably needs to be included in the regexp.

John

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From: Leonard Daly
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:36 AM
To: x3d-public at web3d.org
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] X3D Java SAI. DEFs allowed to contain -?

John,

In the XML encoding 4.3.4 (http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19776-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#DEFAndUSEAttributeSyntax), the first paragraph discusses DEF and USE structures. It states "[t]he same name-construction conventions regarding legal character combinations apply" where DEF is of XML type 'ID' and USE is of XML type 'IDREF'. 

If you trace through the XML definitions for ID, XML (as best as I can tell) allows a dash, except as a first character. I ended up at https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name where the definition of 'Name' is made.

I am confused about the definition of USE. The 19776-1 document states that it is of type XML IDREF. IDREFs appear to be only usable in Document Type Definition as part of the ATTLIST declaration (see https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ or http://xmlwriter.net/xml_guide/attlist_declaration.shtml). I am not sure if 19776-1 is extending the definition to a new use or it is using the term incorrectly.

Leonard Daly




On 1/3/2017 8:48 PM, yottzumm at gmail.com wrote:
Are DEFs allowed to contain –‘s?  If so, then there’s a problem with the setConcreteDEF method.
 
John
 



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