Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> I've just been looking at the state machine in wparser_def.c. I think
>> the processing for entities is also a few bob short in the pound. It
>> recognises decimal numeric character references, but nor hexadecimal
>> numeric character references. That's fairly silly since the HTML spec
>> specifically says the latter are "particularly useful". The rules for
>> named entities are also deficient w.r.t. digits, just like the case of
>> tags that Tom noticed. This isn't academic: HTML features a number of
>> named entities with digits in the name (sup2, frac14 for example).
>>
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>> In XML at least, legal names are defined by the following rules from the
>> spec:
>> ...
>> [A-Za-z:_][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]*
>>
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>
>> I suggest we use that or something very close to it as the rule for
>> names in these patterns.
>>
>
> No objections here. Who wants to patch wparser_def?
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I can get to it some time in the next week. - rather snowed under right now.
BTW, I'm also suspicious of the clause that allows <?xml ... it appears
that it will allow <?xfoo and <?XFOO also, which seems quite odd,
especially the latter.
cheers
andrew
