**Status:** partially resolved (drb core 2.3.3+). XQuery path steps whose name starts with a digit are mis-tokenised. **Purely numeric** steps (`…/2026/01/15/*`, `count(...)`) were fixed in drb core 2.3.3. **Still open:** names with an **alphanumeric** initial digit (e.g. `123ABC`): `/123ABC/*` returns empty because the lexer splits `123` / `ABC`. This is a known XQuery/XPath grammar constraint (an `NCName` cannot start with a digit), so it is an *enhancement* request rather than a strict bug. **Workaround (works today):** `*[name()='123ABC']`. **Ask:** keep the XQuery syntax but disambiguate a numeric-initial step towards the `NameTest`.