Right. Almost all characters are permitted in names, except those which either are or reasonably could be used as delimiters. The intention is to be inclusive

Right. Almost all characters are permitted in names, except those which either are or reasonably could be used as delimiters. The intention is to be inclusive rather than exclusive, so that writing systems not yet encoded in Unicode can be used in XML names Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn