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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
'''
"RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags"
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags>
The W3C grammar for an XHTML open tag is given by production "STag". This
production is not recursive and is in fact strictly regular. The relevant
portions of the XML grammar are as follows (<http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/>):
NameStartChar ::= ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] | [#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] | [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] | [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] | [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF] | [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#xEFFFF]
No constraints
NameChar ::= NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 | [#x0300-#x036F] | [#x203F-#x2040]
No constraints
Name ::= NameStartChar (NameChar)*
No constraints
S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+
No constraints
Eq ::= S? '=' S?
No constraints
EntityRef ::= '&' Name ';'
Well-formedness constraint: Entity Declared
Validity constraint: Entity Declared
Well-formedness constraint: Parsed Entity
Well-formedness constraint: No Recursion
CharRef ::= '&#' [0-9]+ ';' | '&#x' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'
Well-formedness constraint: Legal Character
Reference ::= EntityRef | CharRef
No constraints
AttValue ::= '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' | "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"
No constraints
Attribute ::= Name Eq AttValue
Validity constraint: Attribute Value Type
Well-formedness constraint: No External Entity References
Well-formedness constraint: No < in Attribute Values
STag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
Well-formedness constraint: Unique Att Spec
Amazingly, the well-formedness and validity constraints *can* still be checked
using regular expressions. However, this requires far more information and
yields a very bloated, unpleasant regular expression.
If we plan to extract that information and check it separately, or we don't
care at all, then the desired regex can be constructed as follows:
'''
NameStartChar = "[" + ":A-Z_a-z" + "\\u00C0-\\u00D6\\u00D8-\\u00F6\\u00F8-\\u02FF" + "\\u0370-\\u037D\\u037F-\\u1FFF\\u200C-\\u200D" + "\\u2070-\\u218F\\u2C00-\\u2FEF\\u3001-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFFD\\U00010000-\\U000EFFFF]"
NameChar = "[\\-.0-9:A-Z_a-z\\u00B7\\u00C0-\\u00D6\\u00D8-\\u00F6\\u00F8-\\u02FF\\u0300-\\u036F\\u0370-\\u037D\\u037F-\\u1FFF\\u200C-\\u200D\\u203F-\\u2040\\u2070-\\u218F\\u2C00-\\u2FEF\\u3001-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFFD\\U00010000-\\U000EFFFF]"
Name = NameStartChar + NameChar + "*"
Reference = "&(" + Name + "|#[0-9]+|#x[0-9a-fA-F]+);"
DqAttValue = '"([^<&"]|' + Reference + ')*"'
SqAttValue = "'([^<&']|" + Reference + ")*'"
AttValue = "(" + DqAttValue + "|" + SqAttValue + ")"
Sstar = "[\\u0020\\u0009\\u000D\\u000A]*"
Splus = "[\\u0020\\u0009\\u000D\\u000A]+"
Attribute = Name + Sstar + "=" + Sstar + AttValue
STag = "<" + Name + "(" + Splus + Attribute + ")*" + Sstar + ">"
print(STag)
# Unit tests
import re
prog = re.compile(NameStartChar)
assert prog.fullmatch(":")
assert prog.fullmatch("A")
assert prog.fullmatch("\u00F8")
assert prog.fullmatch("\U000EFFFF")
assert not prog.fullmatch("-")
assert not prog.fullmatch("\\")
prog = re.compile(NameChar)
assert prog.fullmatch(":")
assert prog.fullmatch("A")
assert prog.fullmatch("\u00F8")
assert prog.fullmatch("\U000EFFFF")
assert prog.fullmatch("-")
assert prog.fullmatch("8")
assert not prog.fullmatch("\\")
prog = re.compile(Name)
assert prog.fullmatch("a-b-c:d-e-f0")
assert prog.fullmatch("div")
assert prog.fullmatch("xmlns:root")
assert prog.fullmatch(":anything")
assert not prog.fullmatch("-xml")
assert not prog.fullmatch("0abc")
prog = re.compile(Reference)
assert prog.fullmatch("&amp;")
assert prog.fullmatch("&#01234;")
assert prog.fullmatch("&xABCDEF;")
assert not prog.fullmatch("&xABCDEF")
assert not prog.fullmatch("xABCDEF;")
assert prog.fullmatch("&ABCDEF;")
assert not prog.fullmatch("&-;")
prog = re.compile(DqAttValue)
assert prog.fullmatch('"abc&nbsp;def"')
assert prog.fullmatch('"abcnbsp;def"')
assert not prog.fullmatch('"abc&nbsp;def')
assert not prog.fullmatch('"abc&nbspdef"')
assert not prog.fullmatch('abc&nbsp;def"')
assert prog.fullmatch('"\'"')
assert not prog.fullmatch('"<"')
assert not prog.fullmatch('"&"')
assert not prog.fullmatch('"""')
prog = re.compile(SqAttValue)
assert prog.fullmatch("'abc&nbsp;def'")
assert prog.fullmatch("'abcnbsp;def'")
assert not prog.fullmatch("'abc&nbsp;def")
assert not prog.fullmatch("'abc&nbspdef'")
assert not prog.fullmatch("abc&nbsp;def'")
assert prog.fullmatch("'\"'")
assert not prog.fullmatch("'<'")
assert not prog.fullmatch("'&'")
assert not prog.fullmatch("'''")
prog = re.compile(AttValue)
assert prog.fullmatch("''")
assert prog.fullmatch("'aaa'")
assert prog.fullmatch('"aaa"')
assert not prog.fullmatch("'aaa\"")
assert not prog.fullmatch("\"aaa'")
prog = re.compile(Sstar)
assert prog.fullmatch(" \t\r\n")
assert prog.fullmatch("")
assert not prog.fullmatch("a")
prog = re.compile(Splus)
assert prog.fullmatch(" \t\r\n")
assert not prog.fullmatch("")
assert not prog.fullmatch("a")
prog = re.compile(Attribute)
assert prog.fullmatch("a=''")
assert prog.fullmatch("a = '&nbsp;'")
assert prog.fullmatch('a = "abc"')
prog = re.compile(STag)
assert prog.fullmatch("<p>")
assert prog.fullmatch('<a href=\"foo\">')
assert not prog.fullmatch("<br />")
assert not prog.fullmatch('<hr class="foo" />')
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