ruby / ruby/rexml

XPath underscored function name is wrongly accepted

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Description

# local-name: OK
REXML::XPath.match REXML::Document.new('<foo/>'), 'local-name(*)'
#=> ["foo"]

# local_name: Should be rejected
REXML::XPath.match REXML::Document.new('<foo/>'), 'local_name(*)'
#=> ["foo"]

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The report provides a reproducible REXML::XPath.match example for an underscored function name. Trace XPath function-name parsing from this example and add a regression test covering both local-name() and local_name(). Done means the hyphenated name remains accepted while the underscored name is rejected.

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Tech stack
ruby
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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