Allow xml tags with special characters like date.taken (Flikr)

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/xml.class b/xml.class
index a315d3e..f61793f 100644
--- a/xml.class
+++ b/xml.class
@@ -119,10 +119,15 @@ function flatten($with_attr = false)
 	return $result;
 }
 
+# Strip namespace and convert extra characters to _
+function _make_identifier($name)
+{
+	return preg_replace(array('/^.*:/', '/\W/'), array('', '_'), $name);
+}
+
 function start_element($parser, $name, $attrs)
 {
-	$name = strtr($name, "-", "_");
-	$name = preg_replace('/^.*:/', '', $name);
+	$name = it_xml::_make_identifier($name);
 	$name = $this->_p['prefix'] . $name;
 
 	if (!class_exists($name))
@@ -139,14 +144,14 @@ function start_element($parser, $name, $attrs)
 	if ($attrs)
 	{
 		foreach ($attrs as $key => $val)
-			$this->_stack[0]->attr[preg_replace('/^.*:/', '', $key)] = $val;
+			$this->_stack[0]->attr[it_xml::_make_identifier($key)] = $val;
 	}
 }
 
 function end_element($parser, $name)
 {
-	$name = preg_replace('/^.*:/', '', $name);
-	$name = strtr($name, "-", "_");
+	$name = it_xml::_make_identifier($name);
+
 	if (!$this->_stack[0]->consume($this->_p))
 	{
 		if (is_array($this->_stack[1]->$name))