Feature request from aholovan, posted on GitHub Aug 23, 2016
Looks like 'elementNameType' validator is very strict. I've got an exception in dev mode:
0 (Magento\Framework\Config\Dom\ValidationException): Element 'block', attribute 'name': [facet 'pattern'] The value '4d072daa2b95b9d3fd3995d2faaf2993' is not accepted by the pattern '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\d-_.]*'.
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