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Subject: [xsl] Re: [xquery-talk] backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:20:26 +0100

On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> backticks match the \w regex class which does seem at odds with the
> definition of that class.

You might call it a backtick, and misuse it as a kind of quotation mark, but
its proper Unicode name and intended semantics is "grave accent", and the \w
category includes all non-spacing diacriticals.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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Re: [xsl] Re: backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II, (continued) David Carlisle - 7 Apr 2014 16:50:04 -0000 Ihe Onwuka - 7 Apr 2014 17:04:21 -0000 Abel Braaksma (Exselt) - 7 Apr 2014 17:27:55 -0000 Abel Braaksma (Exselt) - 7 Apr 2014 16:58:56 -0000 Michael Kay - 8 Apr 2014 17:20:41 -0000 <= Ihe Onwuka - 8 Apr 2014 17:28:59 -0000 Wolfgang Laun - 8 Apr 2014 18:01:30 -0000 Ihe Onwuka - 8 Apr 2014 18:10:33 -0000 Wolfgang Laun - 8 Apr 2014 19:42:23 -0000

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  - Ihe Onwuka - 8 Apr 2014 17:28:59 -0000
    - Wolfgang Laun - 8 Apr 2014 18:01:30 -0000
    - Ihe Onwuka - 8 Apr 2014 18:10:33 -0000
    - Wolfgang Laun - 8 Apr 2014 19:42:23 -0000

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