wrong error message in 3.0-RC1

[rdeltour]

From google-c...@pragmata.tk on November 25, 2012 22:38:28

Checking an ePub file, I got the following error message:

ERROR: Όμηρος.epub/OPS/ilia__h_9.xhtml(147,98): value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons

Well, checking other characteristics for valid ID values, according to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-NameStartChar , it seems that an ID value can start with and contain a colon?

Which is wrong: the error message or myself?

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/issues/detail?id=224

[rdeltour]

From markus.g...@gmail.com on November 25, 2012 14:28:03

Hi Pablo,
we use XSD datatypes for the XHTML/XML tokens that have predefiend types. And there, its defined as an NCNAME, not a NAME.

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#ID : " The ·value space· of ID is the set of all strings that ·match· the NCName production in [Namespaces in XML]."

I guess the mismatch is for historical reasons, not sure.

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