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Re: regex for element or attr name

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• Subject: Re: regex for element or attr name
• From: Toni Uusitalo <toni.uusitalo@p...>
• Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:48:54 +0200
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At 13:55 1.12.2003, you wrote:
>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.

Actually xml spec doesn't prevent silliness inside the qualified name, the 
following
is perfectly legal element: <no_brain_no_pain/>
;-)

>
>The XML 1.0 rules are much more complicated but are a restriction of 
>these. <snip>

Yes. they should be left to be handled by the dedicated xml parser. It 
depends though.


Toni Uusitalo

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