ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
Windows 10

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser cannot correctly check the URI at the beginning of "\\.\".
When I forced sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser#isInvalidPathChar to return false, the target file was successfully generated.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
invoke: Files.createFile(Paths.get("\\\\.\\D:\\prn.xml"));

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
no exception
ACTUAL -
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal character [:] in path at index 5: \\.\D:\prn.xml
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.nextSlash(WindowsPathParser.java:212)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:116)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:77)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.parse(WindowsPath.java:92)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem.getPath(WindowsFileSystem.java:229)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Path.of(Path.java:147)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:69)

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Files.createFile(Paths.get("\\\\.\\D:\\prn.xml"));
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FREQUENCY : always