Re: Re: Re: generating A NAME tags in HTML output

...may be followed by any number of letters...

I assume that with "letters" you mean 'a' to 'z'? (There are many other characters that many, many people consider letters.)

Update: That's when I finally read the post I answered. Doh! Me bad. Forget it.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: generating A NAME tags in HTML output by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Nov 27, 2001 at 09:17 UTC
It uses plain ASCII characters, letter meaning `[A-Za-z]`. SGML, being 30 years old, obviously predates Unicode, and was contemporary with 7-bit character sets and bank-swapping concepts that grew into the horrible mess known as ISO-2022. I don't know if XML extends this, allowing other characters in "identifier" -like tokens. C and C++ lists all legal letters and idiographs in all character sets permitted in identifiers; I don't know if Perl references a formal standard, but it also allows Unicode characters in symbol names. I good first appoximation is to use the Unicode "properties" to pick letters, letter-like symbols, etc. —John	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: generating A NAME tags in HTML output
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Nov 27, 2001 at 09:17 UTC

[A-Za-z]

I don't know if XML extends this, allowing other characters in "identifier" -like tokens. C and C++ lists all legal letters and idiographs in all character sets permitted in identifiers; I don't know if Perl references a formal standard, but it also allows Unicode characters in symbol names. I good first appoximation is to use the Unicode "properties" to pick letters, letter-like symbols, etc.

—John

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