Designed to let developers of various kinds of XML processors test
Gorille is a small Java package designed to let developers of various kinds of XML processors test the content and names of XML structures in their XML documents. While Gorille ships with test files for both XML 1.0 and the draft XML 1.1, you can Create your own configuration files as well.

Gorille uses an XML format to specify lists of characters according to either XML 1.0 conventions (with its BaseChar, Ideographic, CombiningChar, Digit, and Extender productions) or XML 1.1 conventions (NameStartChar, NameChar). Both forms permit specification of the Char and S production for content characters and Whitespace. Ive included sample lists for both XML 1.0 and XML 1.1, as well as an ASCII-only version of XML 1.0. (Gorille 0.4 added functionality to compile these lists into code, avoiding the loading process at startup.)

Gorille performs checking of Name, Names, QName, NMTOKEN, and NMTOKENS, as well as character checking for any of the productions listed above. This checking is performed by XML parsers as documents are parsed, but Gorille may be useful for checking XML documents generated by programs or to restrict documents to subsets of the characters allowed by XML.

Gorille relies completely on Javas built-in support for Unicode strings and characters, though it doesnt use any of the Unicode property information Java provides (in java.lang.Character and java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock). Starting in version 0.3, Gorille provides support for the Surrogates Area (13.4) of Unicode (U+D800-U+DFFF) and for characters above 10000 represented by surrogate pairs (3.7). Java itself doesnt recognize these characters as such, but does permit their inclusion in strings as UTF-16 code points. you can free download Gorille 0.5 now.