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On 19/05/2011 18:45, Julian Reschke wrote:
Yes. This is being added in 3.0.
Why not use the regex
([A-Z]+) = ([A-Z]+)
and rely on xsl:matching-substring being called multiple times?
Alternatively, first use tokenize() to split on the semicolons, and then put each token through xsl:analyze-string.
Personally, I find long regexes very difficult to get right, and try to split the task up into small pieces that I can understand and debug.
Re: [xsl] two regexp related questions
Subject: Re: [xsl] two regexp related questions From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:36:42 +0100 |
On 19/05/2011 18:45, Julian Reschke wrote:
Hi there,
I've got two regexp-related questions.
1) Is it correct that XSLT/XPath2's regular expressions do not support non-capturing groups (as shown in <http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.util.regex/NoGroup.html>)?
Yes. This is being added in 3.0.
2) With respect to analyze-string, and the captured regex-groups:
I'm using a regex like
([A-Z]+) = ([A-Z]+) ( ; ([A-Z]+) = ([A-Z]+) )*
for matching things like
a=b;c=d;e=f
Why not use the regex
([A-Z]+) = ([A-Z]+)
and rely on xsl:matching-substring being called multiple times?
Alternatively, first use tokenize() to split on the semicolons, and then put each token through xsl:analyze-string.
Personally, I find long regexes very difficult to get right, and try to split the task up into small pieces that I can understand and debug.
Michael Kay Saxonica
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