Hey Rob,

        Thats great. I am not knowledgeable to review this from a correctness 
point of view but am happy to help on the code review / commit side. Anyone 
else out there who can check over for correctness?

Cheers,

Gareth

On 2 May 2013, at 03:01, Rob Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:

> Xerces-C currently applies XML 1.0 4th edition rules to name characters
> in XML 1.0 documents.    XML 1.0 5th edition permits a broader class
> of name characters, based on those permitted in XML 1.1.
> 
> Proposal: that Xerces-C 3.2.0 be updated to include support for XML 1.0
> 5th edition.
> 
> Although our main work is with icXML, we've looked at making this change
> in Xerces-C original code base so that icXML support for XML 1.0 5e is
> compatible with us.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that I've handled everything, but the following change
> works in our test.  The change plan is below and a svn diff file is attached.
> 
> Here is the change plan.
> ----------------------------------
> 
> 
> (1)  internal/CharTypeTables.hpp
> 
> Rename gFirstNameChars1_1 to be gFirstNameChars
> Rename gNameChars1_1 to be gNameChars
> 
> (2) util/XMLChar.cpp
> (2a)  
>    Update initCharFlagTable1_1() to use the gFirstNameChars, gNameChars
>    Update initCharFlagTable() to use the set-ups from initCharFlagTable1_1()
>      to define gNameCharMask, gNCNameCharMask, and gFirstNameCharMask.
>     //
>     //  Name characters are special. A name is made up of a number of
>     //  different tables and some special case characters.
>     //
>     initOneTable(gNameChars, gNameCharMask);
> 
>     //
>     //  Name characters are special. A name is made up of a number of
>     //  different tables and some special case characters.
>     //
>     initOneTable(gNameChars, gNCNameCharMask);
>     gTmpCharTable[chColon] &= ~gNCNameCharMask;
> 
>     //
>     //  Then do the first name char
>     //
>     initOneTable(gFirstNameChars, gFirstNameCharMask);
> 
> (2b) #define NEED_TO_GEN_TABLE
> compile and do a sample run of a Xerces app, generate table.out
> 
> (2c) Replace the XMLChar1_0::fgCharCharsTable1_0 definition pf XMLChar.cpp
> with that from table.out.
> 
> (3) XMLChar.hpp
>     Modify XMLChar1_0::isFirstNameChar, XMLChar1_0::isFirstNCNameChar, 
> XMLChar1_0::isNameChar, XMLChar1_0::isNCNameChar
>     to each check for and allow characters in the #x10000-#xEFFFF range
>    
>     else {
>         if ((toCheck >= 0xD800) && (toCheck <= 0xDB7F))
>            if ((toCheck2 >= 0xDC00) && (toCheck2 <= 0xDFFF))
>                return true;
>     }
> 
> 
> (4)  Modify XMLReader::getName and XMLReader::getNCName
>        to allow surrogate pairs in Names and NCNames
>        (i.e., use the version 1.1 logic for both 1.0 and 1.1).
> 
> 
> <diff5e>
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