Package net.sf.saxon.om

Class NameChecker

java.lang.Object
net.sf.saxon.om.NameChecker
public abstract class NameChecker extends Object
The NameChecker performs validation and analysis of XML names.

In releases prior to 9.6, there were two name checkers, one for XML 1.0 and one for XML 1.1. However, XML 1.0 fifth edition uses the same rules for XML names as XML 1.1, so they were actually checking the same rules for names (although they were different when checking for valid characters). From 9.6, the name checker no longer performs checks for valid XML characters, so only one name checker is needed, and the methods have become static.

  • Constructor Details

    • NameChecker

      public NameChecker()

  • Method Details

    • isQName

      public static boolean isQName(IntIterator codePoints)
      Validate whether a given string constitutes a valid QName, as defined in XML Namespaces. Note that this does not test whether the prefix is actually declared.
      Parameters:
      codePoints - the name to be tested, supplied as a codepoint iterator
      Returns:
      true if the name is a lexically-valid QName

    • getPrefix

      public static String getPrefix(String qname)
      Extract the prefix from a QName. Note, the QName is assumed to be valid.
      Parameters:
      qname - The lexical QName whose prefix is required
      Returns:
      the prefix, that is the part before the colon. Returns an empty string if there is no prefix

    • getQNameParts

      public static String[] getQNameParts(String qname) throws QNameException
      Throws:
      QNameException

    • checkQNameParts

      public static String[] checkQNameParts(String qname) throws XPathException
      Validate a QName, and return the prefix and local name. Both parts are checked to ensure they are valid NCNames.

      Used from compiled code

      Parameters:
      qname - the lexical QName whose parts are required. Note that leading and trailing whitespace is not permitted
      Returns:
      an array of two strings, the prefix and the local name. The first item is a zero-length string if there is no prefix.
      Throws:
      XPathException - if not a valid QName.

    • isValidNCName

      public static boolean isValidNCName(IntIterator codePoints)
      Validate whether a given string constitutes a valid NCName, as defined in XML Namespaces.
      Parameters:
      codePoints - the name to be tested, as a codepoint iterator. Any whitespace trimming must have already been applied.
      Returns:
      true if the name is a lexically-valid QName

    • isValidNCName

      public static boolean isValidNCName(String str)

    • isValidNmtoken

      public static boolean isValidNmtoken(UnicodeString in)
      Check to see if a string is a valid Nmtoken according to [7] in the XML 1.0 Recommendation
      Parameters:
      in - the string to be tested. Any whitespace trimming must have already been applied.
      Returns:
      true if nmtoken is a valid Nmtoken

    • isNCNameChar

      public static boolean isNCNameChar(int ch)
      Test whether a character can appear in an NCName
      Parameters:
      ch - the character to be tested
      Returns:
      true if this is a valid character in an NCName. The rules for XML 1.0 fifth edition are the same as the XML 1.1 rules, and these are the rules that we use.

    • isNCNameStartChar

      public static boolean isNCNameStartChar(int ch)
      Test whether a character can appear at the start of an NCName
      Parameters:
      ch - the character to be tested
      Returns:
      true if this is a valid character at the start of an NCName. The rules for XML 1.0 fifth edition are the same as the XML 1.1 rules, and these are the rules that we use.