On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Stefan Siegl wrote:
>no, only the TLD (rightmost domain label, e.g. com) mustn't start
>with a digit. thus 1x.foo.com is allowed just like x.1foo.com is.
>Only foo.1com isn't allowed.
OK. But checking xmltv-0.6.dtd I was reminded:
>However, while DNS names may begin with a digit, ids in XML files
>may not, so we prepend the letter 'C' where necessary. For example
>'C2.cinema.sky.com' rather than '2.cinema.sky.com'.
The reason for the 'C' prefix is XML, not DNS, so we have to keep it.
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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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