Unicode Regex; Invalid XML characters

Question

The list of valid XML characters is well known, as defined by the spec it\'s:

#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
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Answer 1

In PHP the regex would look like the following way:

protected function isStringValid($string)
{
    $regex = '/[^\x{9}\x{a}\x{d}\x{20}-\x{D7FF}\x{E000}-\x{FFFD}\x{10000}-\x{10FFFF}]+/u';

    return (preg_match($regex, $string, $matches) === 0);
}

This would handle all 3 ranges from the xml specification:

#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]