http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/types.html#h-6.2
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ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z])
and may be followed by any number of letters, digits
([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons
(":"), and periods (".").
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