Can xml attributes contain an underscore?

[DC]

I'm having some non-success trying to parse an xml file containing
underscores in the attributes, like so:

<variables first_year="200 0" lastyear="2006" >
<variable var_name="cost" axis_name="year " type="entity"/>
<variable var_name="enrol lment" axis_name="enro ll" type="data"/>
<variable var_name="time" axis_name="time " type="data"/>
</variables>


The jquery call that I've used previously without success...somet hing
like: alert ( $(this).attr("v ar_name"))...gi ves me a value of
undefined.

[Richard Tobin]

Re: Can xml attributes contain an underscore?

In article <25ef7b33-7cf0-4269-a60f-bebb3fe5bfac@c2 g2000pra.google groups.com>,
DC <dan.cao.nguyen @gmail.comwrote :

>I'm having some non-success trying to parse an xml file containing
>underscores in the attributes, like so:

Underscores are legal. If they weren't, you'd get an error from the
parser, rather than an undefined value from a query.

-- Richard
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