A name was started with an invalid character

[anyideas]

hi all.

I keep getting the above error when I try using vbscript or javascript.

Has anyone come across this before and is there a solution?

Cheers

Mark

 

[Deeba]

Do you know which line in the script this is pointing to? Maybe with a short snippet of your code we could help.

~Deeba~

 

[Nosferatu]

The error refers to an XML element name. They all have to start with a valid character, other that whitespace and other characters specified in the XML SPEC from W3C. You'll get such an error on:
< Element> </ Element>

Actually, you can use only letters or : and _ to begin element names, other way than with a letter. So
<:element> and <_element> is valid, but <!element> is not! [red]Nosferatu[/red]
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[Guest_imported]

Hi.. I'm getting this same error in my DTD when I have an Attribute value = &quot;11&quot; .. It's type ID.. and I am pretty sure taht you can start an attribute value with a number.. here is my DTD Code..

<!DOCTYPE catalog [
<!ELEMENT catalog (cat+)>
<!ELEMENT cat (product,category,options)>
<!ATTLIST cat id ID #IMPLIED &quot;&quot;>
<!ELEMENT product (productheader,producttitle,img+,product_description,price)>
<!ELEMENT productheader (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT producttitle (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT img EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST img src CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT product_description (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT price (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT category (name,img+)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT img2 EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST img2 src CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT options EMPTY>

Any ideas??? Thanks.. Joss

 

[chiph]

You can't start the name of things (elements, attributes, etc) with a number. It must be a letter, or one of the W3C acceptable characters (colon :, underscore _ ), like Nosferatu said.

Chip H.

 

[Guest_imported]

Okay... I knew that you had to start element tags with w3c aceptable chars... but whats the point of an ID type atrribute.. if you cant use numbers... why not just use a tag name... seems really dumb..

Joss