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David Bertoni resolved XALANC-445:
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Assign To: David Bertoni
Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version: CurrentCVS
The code now uses 'N' instead of '.'
> generate-id() inserts periods into name which limits usage
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> Key: XALANC-445
> URL: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANC-445
> Project: XalanC
> Type: Bug
> Components: XalanC
> Versions: 1.6
> Reporter: William D. seurer
> Assignee: David Bertoni
> Fix For: CurrentCVS
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> "The generate-id function returns a string that uniquely identifies the node
> in the argument node-set that is first in document order. The unique
> identifier must consist of ASCII alphanumeric characters and must start with
> an alphabetic character. Thus, the string is syntactically an XML name."
> (from http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-generate-id)
> I have someone arguing with me that Xalan doesn't do this right because it
> returns names like this "Nxxxxxxxx.yyyyyyyy" (where the x's and y's are hex
> digits). The period in the middle is the sticking point. He says this is
> not an ASCII alphanumeric character. For what he is doing with the names
> (something with JavaScript) periods are not legal characters and he is stuck.
> Unforunately there is no single clear definition of "ASCII alphanumeric
> character" that I can find. Some of the definitions include all ASCII
> characters in "alphanumeric" while others include only letters and numbers.
> XML names are clearly defined and they can include periods (among several
> other non-letter/non-number characters).
> It can be argued that everything is working fine but it would probably be
> better if some other character than a period was used in the middle there.
> This specifically is for Xalan 1.6 but the code (in the getSuffix function of
> FunctionGenerateID) is the same in Xalan 1.9 as well and probably other
> versions.
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