[jdom-interest] Bug? element names not allowed to have dots?

[Cameron Smith]

Hi, I'm new on this list and currently trawling through archives, so please
point me at the right place if this question has already been dealt with.
I'm just in a hurry because I'm trying to promote JDom over an in-house XML
tool and things are moving v. fast.

I am using JDom beta4 and it parses most documents fine (I am currently
benchmarking it vs. in-house tool on 'real' xml documents from client
projects).  However it refuses to accept element names with a dot '.' in
them, such as <letter.body> .  As far as I know well-formed XML Elements may
have dots in the name after the first character, so does anyone know what is
going on?

Other than that, could I just add my congratulations to the JDom team -
overall it is a very impressive piece of work!

cheers,
cameron smith,
Entranet UK