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+/*
+ * Dealing with identifiers
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1
+ * or later.  See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#include "qemu-common.h"
+
+bool id_wellformed(const char *id)
+{
+    int i;
+
+    if (!qemu_isalpha(id[0])) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    for (i = 1; id[i]; i++) {
+        if (!qemu_isalnum(id[i]) && !strchr("-._", id[i])) {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    return true;
+}