// drop all characters which are not valid in an XML tag name
// a bunch of non-ASCII letters would be valid but probably won't
// be used so we take the easy way
- $key = preg_replace( '/[^a-zA-z0-9_:.-]/', '', $key );
+ $key = preg_replace( '/[^a-zA-z0-9_:.\-]/', '', $key );
// drop characters which are invalid at the first position
- $key = preg_replace( '/^[\d-.]+/', '', $key );
+ $key = preg_replace( '/^[\d\-.]+/', '', $key );
if ( $key == '' ) {
$key = '_';