Simple Answer: Because the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation says so.
Long Answer: I dunno, ask one of the people on XML 1.0 working group.
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From: Rick Jones [mailto:]
Sent: Wed 8/7/2002 10:42 AM
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Subject: [xml-dev] another naieve question - valid characters for ID values
So, at the risk of stumbling across another point of contention between
programmers and writers :)
Why do the the values of an ID attribute have to start with something
besides a number? That is to say, why can't they be simply numbers? Or
have I encountered a limitation of the parser I'm using (libxml2)?
rick jones
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