---
name: "XML::RegExp"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-xml-regexp"
version: "0.04-6"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/XML::RegExp"
---

# XML::RegExp(3pm)

Regular expressions for XML tokens

## NAME

XML::RegExp - Regular expressions for XML tokens

## SYNOPSIS

```
 use XML::RegExp;
 if ($my_name =~ /^$XML::RegExp::Name$/)
 {
   # $my_name is a valid XML 'Name'
 }
```

## DESCRIPTION

This package contains regular expressions for the following XML tokens: BaseChar, Ideographic, Letter, Digit, Extender, CombiningChar, NameChar,  EntityRef, CharRef, Reference, Name, NmToken, and AttValue.

The definitions of these tokens were taken from the XML spec  (Extensible Markup Language 1.0) at \<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml\>.

Also contains the regular expressions for the following tokens from the XML Namespaces spec at \<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names\>: NCNameChar, NCName, QName, Prefix and LocalPart.

## AUTHOR

Original Author is Enno Derksen \<*enno@att.com*\>

Please send bugs, comments and suggestions to T.J. Mather \<*tjmather@tjmather.com*\>