Fix character reference parsing

[Pharb]

Ignore leading zeros and case-insensitive hexadecimal characters.

Purpose / Goal

Fixes: #568

Type

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• Bug Fix
• Refactoring / Technology upgrade
• New Feature

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Benchmark

on master c7b3cea:

$ node benchmark/XmlParser.js
Running Suite: XML Parser benchmark
fxp v3 : 104492.65920369806 requests/second
fxp : 71740.31616855874 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 79167.16811125632 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 30097.740319390698 requests/second
xml2js  : 19269.565779616878 requests/second

$ node benchmark/XmlBuilder.js
Running Suite: XML Builder benchmark
fxp : 115721.94119323186 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 254535096.4923456 requests/second
xml2js  : 30245.690942021945 requests/second

on PR branch 7ffae07:

$  node benchmark/XmlParser.js
Running Suite: XML Parser benchmark
fxp v3 : 104906.50130850698 requests/second
fxp : 70241.16491572408 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 77212.26547824622 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 30320.162156061833 requests/second
xml2js  : 19072.050992656794 requests/second

$ node benchmark/XmlBuilder.js
Running Suite: XML Builder benchmark
fxp : 114569.05961947251 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 249648275.08603555 requests/second
xml2js  : 30008.326170982098 requests/second

[amitguptagwl]

Thanks for the PR. As there are some big changes in progress, I'll consider this PR after that or will pick them selectively.