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Re: [xsl] Empty input in analyze-string

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Seems to me that the empty string doesn't match or mismatch:

<data>
 <para>C.1</para>
 <para>F.1</para>
 <para></para>
 <para>H.1</para>
 <para>F.2</para>
</data>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="myregex">^([CF]\.[0-9\.]+)\s*(.*)$</xsl:variable>
<output>
<xsl:for-each select="data/para">
<input><xsl:value-of select="."/></input>
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="{$myregex}">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<match>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</match>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<nonmatch>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</nonmatch>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:for-each>
</output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I get (with Saxon 9.1):
<output>
  <input>C.1</input>
  <match>C.1</match>
  <input>F.1</input>
  <match>F.1</match>
  <input/>
  <input>H.1</input>
  <nonmatch>H.1</nonmatch>
  <input>F.2</input>
  <match>F.2</match>
</output>

Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name

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From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:18 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Empty input in analyze-string

It doesn't look to me as if it matches an empty string. Perhaps you are
misinterpreting the evidence?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 July 2008 13:44
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Empty input in analyze-string

Hello,

  I cannot figure out how to tell xsl:analyze-string that
empty input should not match regex.

eg.

    <xsl:variable
name="myregex">^([CF]\.[0-9\.]+)\s*(.*)$</xsl:variable>
    <xsl:analyze-string select="$para2" regex="{$myregex}">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
      </xsl:matching-substring>
...

if para2 is an empty element, then the regex success and
return an empty string. How do I express in my regex that
empty is a non-matching regex ?

Thanks !
--
Mathieu

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