I agree with Tony on all accounts; I prefer the original.
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Mike Grimley
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony B. Coates [mailto:abcoates@londonmarketsystems.com]
Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 16:06
To: UBL-NDR
Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Rule: 5
** Reply to message from "Lisa-Aeon" <lseaburg@aeon-llc.com> on Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:29:04 -0500
I never previously saw the need for a "business" version of this rule. I really couldn't see too many CEOs implementing this rule for themselves, so I thought the regular expression was just fine. What I do not like about these rule options now is that they describe the characters [a-zA-Z] as the "letters". This is only true for the English alphabet. If you only want English letters, I think that should be mentioned explicitly, to avoid implicit cultural imperialism. That said, I thought the regular expression was just fine as it was originally.
Cheers,
Tony
> 1.
> [R 5] XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z)
> optionally followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to
> z, and A to Z). They may not include periods, spaces, or other
> separators. As a regular expression this is represented as:
> [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
>
>
> 2.
> [R 5] XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z)
> optionally followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to
> z, and A to Z). Other characters not described here, such as
> punctuations, periods, spaces, or other separators MUST NOT appear in
> XML names. As a regular expression this is represented as:
> [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
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