XML::RegExp(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML::RegExp(3)
NAME
XML::RegExp - Regular expressions for XML tokens
SYNOPSIS
use XML::RegExp;
if ($my_name =~ /^$XML::RegExp::Name$/)
{
# $my_name is a valid XML 'Name'
}
DESCRIPTION
This package contains regular expressions for the following XML tokens: BaseChar, Ideographic, Letter, Digit, Extender, CombiningChar,
NameChar, EntityRef, CharRef, Reference, Name, NmToken, and AttValue.
The definitions of these tokens were taken from the XML spec (Extensible Markup Language 1.0) at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml>.
Also contains the regular expressions for the following tokens from the XML Namespaces spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names>: NCNameChar, NCName, QName, Prefix and LocalPart.
AUTHOR
Original Author is Enno Derksen <enno@att.com>
Please send bugs, comments and suggestions to T.J. Mather <tjmather@tjmather.com>
perl v5.12.1 2001-06-20 XML::RegExp(3)
