Re: [xml-dev] regex for element or attr name

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

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.