XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

xs:NCName

Synopsis

An xs:NCName is a noncolonized name as defined in “Namespaces in XML” 1.0. This is a legal XML name that does not contain a colon. The value must consist exclusively of letters, digits, ideographs, and the underscore, hyphen, and period. Digits, the hyphen, and the period may not be used to start a name, although they may be used inside the name. Name characters allowed in XML 1.1 but not in XML 1.0, such as the Ethiopic alphabet, are not allowed. These are all legal values of type xs:NCName:

• I-10

• _128

• Limit

• xml-stylesheet

• エ リ オ ッ ト

Constraining facets that apply to xs:NCName are length, minLength, maxLength, pattern, enumeration, and whiteSpace.