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(1) Is there a way to say that an attribute is an ID, but it also must
be of a certain form (i.e. conform to an <!ENTITY> specification)?

(2) Is there a way to say that an attribute's value should be
considered case-insensitive?

Thanks,

Bob Vesterman.

* Robert William Vesterman wrote in comp.text.xml:
>(1) Is there a way to say that an attribute is an ID, but it also must
>be of a certain form (i.e. conform to an <!ENTITY> specification)?

No.

>(2) Is there a way to say that an attribute's value should be
>considered case-insensitive?

No.
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Robert William Vesterman wrote:

> (1) Is there a way to say that an attribute is an ID, but it also must
> be of a certain form (i.e. conform to an <!ENTITY> specification)?

No. ID values must be literals.

> (2) Is there a way to say that an attribute's value should be
> considered case-insensitive?

No, XML specifies that they must be case-sensitive.
If you want them to be case-insensitive, use SGML instead of XML.

///Peter
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 02:22:04 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Robert William Vesterman wrote:

>> (2) Is there a way to say that an attribute's value should be
>> considered case-insensitive?
>
> No, XML specifies that they must be case-sensitive.
> If you want them to be case-insensitive, use SGML instead of XML.

Yes, but it needs to be remembered here that SGML doesn't really have a
"case insensitivity" option. The option is better termed "case folding",
where name tokens are normalized by the parser to upper-case form.