Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, the state machine definitely thinks that tag names should contain >> only ASCII letters (with possibly a leading or trailing '/'). Given the >> HTML examples I suppose we should allow non-first digits too. Is there >> anything else that should be considered a tag? What about dash and >> underscore for instance?
> The docs say we specifically accept HTML tags. Are we really just > accepting anything that is a string of ASCII letters as the tag name? > Then we should adjust the docs. <foo> and <foo1234> are not HTML tags. I don't think I want to try to maintain a list of exactly which identifiers are considered valid tag names ... and if I did, I wouldn't put it into the parser. It would be a dictionary's job to tell valid from invalid tag names, no? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster