From bb284f4453f308d55b75d75e5caee47f4d6f9552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@src.gnome.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:02:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed a XML Namespace compliance bug reported by Alexander
 Grimalovsky

* parser.c: fixed a XML Namespace compliance bug reported by
  Alexander Grimalovsky
Daniel
---
 ChangeLog |  5 +++++
 parser.c  | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5d83ff0f..ff50ee25 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Oct 16 20:01:46 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* parser.c: fixed a XML Namespace compliance bug reported by
+	  Alexander Grimalovsky
+
 Wed Oct 16 17:18:42 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* HTMLtree.c: fixed serialization of script and style when
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 2c579543..f734a3c7 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -1688,11 +1688,30 @@ xmlSplitQName(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar *name, xmlChar **prefix) {
 
 
     if (c == ':') {
-	c = *cur++;
+	c = *cur;
 	if (c == 0) return(ret);
         *prefix = ret;
 	len = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Check that the first character is proper to start
+	 * a new name
+	 */
+	if (!(((c >= 0x61) && (c <= 0x7A)) ||
+	      ((c >= 0x41) && (c <= 0x5A)) ||
+	      (c == '_') || (c == ':'))) {
+	    int l;
+	    int first = CUR_SCHAR(cur, l);
+
+	    if (!IS_LETTER(first) && (first != '_')) {
+		if ((ctxt->sax != NULL) && (ctxt->sax->error != NULL))
+		    ctxt->sax->error(ctxt->userData,
+			    "Name %s is not XML Namespace compliant\n",
+			             name);
+	    }
+	}
+	cur++;
+
 	while ((c != 0) && (len < max)) { /* tested bigname2.xml */
 	    buf[len++] = c;
 	    c = *cur++;