Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

yes, i know there is also Zulip

i agree, it IS better if every discussion has a separate thread. what if there was a software which did this for you

they are trying really hard to turn the DSA discord into a forum which does raise the question as to why the DSA discord isn’t a forum

bitch logs on to the DSA discord just to criticize fake maoists and then logs the fuck off

i have a website

i am on the internet

porrrrrrrrrrrrn

internet is wrong about this one

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i should have more friends who draw furry/otherkin porn

it was at least a nongendered tshirt for a baby

dreamt that gwyneth paltrow showed up to gift us a tshirt for a baby to try to passive aggro us into having kids

everyone decided to build operating systems around C code and a portable shell and then they standardized that, but everyone agreed on a whole lot of other things also and they decided that wasn’t worth the bother

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, ')'))]