[xml] Bug in the regular expression parser; character range with escaped characters not working

[Dominik Skanda <Dominik Skanda WEB DE>]

Hi,

I think there is a bug in the regular expression parser for character
ranges, i.e. the character class [\]-a] with an escaped character (here
\]) is not recognized by the libXML regular expression parser.

E.g.: The simple type is not working:

<xs:simpleType name="LimitedString">
        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
                <xs:pattern value="[\]-a]*"/>
        </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

but

<xs:simpleType name="LimitedString">
        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
                <xs:pattern value="[Z-a]*"/>
        </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

If one looks at the ASCII table:

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 

one sees that Z is the most right character before the character ] which
does not have to be escaped in the character range definition. This
indicates that there is a bug.

I have prepared some example files to demonstrate the shortcoming:

test_not_validating.xsd is using the first simple type definition and
test_validating.xsd the second one, respectively.

You can try to validate test.xml with: 

xmllint --noout --schema test_not_validating.xsd ./test.xml

and

xmllint --noout --schema test_validating.xsd ./test.xml

respectively.

It would be nice if anyone could confirm the BUG and possibly solve it.

Regards,

Dominik

Attachment: test.xml
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Attachment: test_not_validating.xsd
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