XML Naming conventions

Isakkirajan · July 13th, 2009, 01:20 AM

I am just giving the root element name starting with -(dash). It's not working both in IE and mozilla. But as per the book the rule is

"Names can start with letters (including non-Latin characters) or the dash (-) character, but not
numbers or other punctuation characters".

But when i tried the _(Underscore). it's working perfectly. Why ???

joefawcett · July 13th, 2009, 08:13 AM

I think that's an error, I don't believe element names can start with a -.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-NameStartChar.