gh-139489: Add xml.sax.saxutils.is_valid_name()#139768
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It allows to check whether a string can be used as an element or attribute name in XML.
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| * Add the :func:`~xml.sax.utils.is_valid_name` function, which allows to check |
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| * Add the :func:`~xml.sax.utils.is_valid_name` function, which allows to check | |
| * Add the :func:`~xml.sax.saxutils.is_valid_name` function, which allows to check |
While sax.utils exists, the documented module is saxutils.
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Thank you for noticing. More changes there were needed.
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Why not adding the function in the The function doesn't seem to be specific to the sax implementation. Is it? |
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There is no an |
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I'm suggesting to create such |
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This is an interesting idea. |
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It allows to check whether a string can be used as an element or attribute name in XML.
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