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(Actually, I don't know why #xHHHH is used here: it would be better to
use U+HHHH to emphasize that these are characters not codes in the
external encoding.)

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:55:27 +1100
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Ramkumar Menon wrote:

Hi,

cd anybody let me know what are the permitted tokens within a fully qualified XML element name, or Attribute Name
A regex would help.

For a simple regex, adapt these ones, which are based on the XML 1.1 rules.

The main things the naming checking needs to do is to prevent numbers and symbols
from starting the name, and to prevent spaces and silliness inside the name.
The XML 1.0 rules are much more complicated but are a restriction of these.

[4a] NameChar ::= http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#NT-NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 | [#x0300-#x036F] | [#x203F-#x2040]

5] Name ::= http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#NT-NameStartChar (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#NT-NameChar)

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