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Posix be like, “ok but suppose someone is developing an operating system which never has to process XML” 🙄

this might be the easiest portableish way of doing this and that is a condemnation of the current state of computing on Posix

here is a shell command you can run to test whether the value of MAYBE_NCNAME is an ncname or not; returns exit status 0 if it is and 1 otherwise

printf '%s\n' '<transform xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:exsldyn="http://exslt.org/dynamic" version="1.0"><param name="thing"/><template match="/"><choose><when test="/self::node()[translate(normalize-space($thing), &quot; /([,*&quot;, &quot;&quot;)=string($thing) and exsldyn:evaluate(concat(&quot;not(self::exsldyn:&quot;, $thing, &quot;)&quot;))]">ok</when><otherwise>ng</otherwise></choose></template></transform>' | xsltproc --stringparam thing "${MAYBE_NCNAME}" --html --novalid - /dev/null 2>/dev/null | grep -F -q -x 'ok'

/self::node()[translate(normalize-space($thing), ' /([,*', '')=string($thing) and exsldyn:evaluate(concat('not(self::exsldyn:', $thing, ')'))]

i think is safe

this probably actually needs a touch of hardening (making sure $thing does not contain a '[' or '/', or else you could run into serious issues) but

XSLT 1.0 + EXSLT is a constant exercise in things you probably weren’t intended to be able to do but nevertheless can

want to know if something is a valid NCName? easy! just do

/self::node()[exsldyn:evaluate(concat('not(self::exsldyn:', $thing, ')'))]

feel like just this morning i was reading takes saying there was no way the federal government could actually start deporting citizens and now tonight i’m reading headlines saying they have indeed deported at least one citizen; those sure aged fast

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all my friends post on social media instead of having blogs

@Satsuma traditionally life was a lot cheaper and savings were less important