[dna-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (DNA-278) Create new utility class for determining validity of XML NCNames

Create new utility class for determining validity of XML NCNames ---------------------------------------------------------------- Key: DNA-278 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-278 Project: DNA Issue Type: Task Components: Common Affects Versions: 0.3 Reporter: Randall Hauch Assignee: Randall Hauch Fix For: 0.4 A namespace prefix in JCR must be a valid NCName, as defined by the XML specification. We need a utility to perform this checking. Currently, 'dna-common' is dependent upon only a minimal set of libraries (e.g,. logging and the optional JCIP annotations), and these do not have this utility. A few libraries do have such utilities, but then we'd be dependent upon a library just for one class. Implementation-wise, it doesn't seem to be too tough a nut to crack. The only trick is how to quickly identify whether a character matches one (or more) of the character classes (as defined by the spec). One approach would be to use ranges within each method, but that would require doing multiple math operations on each lookup. The other approach would be to precompute the information so that lookups are fast. Even with this latter approach there are multiple options for the structure: have a bit set for each class keyed by character; the other is to have a one bitmask for each character (in a map or array). The latter seems fastest (single index and a few bit operations) and smallest in memory footprint (only one data structure the size of the characters).