[jdom-interest] DOCTYPE still giving me the worst headache!

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>I don't think we should allow colons in JDOM element names.  If we do,
>people are going to try to put colons in element names as a way to
>manage namespaces (since that's the obvious way to do it), and get
>themselves into loads of trouble.
>

I agree, but you mistook what I did. checkElementName() is still 
there and still used for elements. That hasn't changed. Its behavior 
has not changed. However *entity* names can contain colons (as can 
other types of XML names like ID and IDREF attribute values). This 
requires a different method to check. That's why I exposed and used 
checkXMLName(). But I didn't in any way change the existing behavior 
or interface of the Element class.
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