Subject: RE: [xsl] regex grouping precedence. From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:19:41 +0100 |
The groups are numbered by counting left brackets: the 5th unescaped left bracket starts group 5, regardless of where the closing brackets or are, and regardless of other operators such as "|". Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Pawson, David [mailto:David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 29 September 2004 08:23 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] regex grouping precedence. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-matching-substring seems to say > little about how nested grouping is numbered. > > (...) (....) ( ....) > gives regex-group (1,2,3) OK. > > (...) (....)| ( ....) > Is the third group counted as two due to the alternates? > or still 3? > > (...) ( (..)(.).) ( ....) > 1 2 3 4 5 > is how I would expect to number them, > but I'm totally unsure. > > Using xslt 2 to parse a plain text file; > > Input string > 500748,500748 ,Set My People Free > > regex > > <xsl:for-each select='tokenize($f, "[\r]?\n")'> > <r> > > <xsl:analyze-string flags="ix" > regex="([0-9]{{6}}) > (,,)|(,([0-9]{{6}})\p{{Zs}}+,(.*))$" > select="."> > <xsl:matching-substring> > <bibno><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/></bibno> > <ck><xsl:value-of > select="normalize-space(regex-group(4))"/></ck> > <ttl><xsl:value-of > select="normalize-space(regex-group(5))"/></ttl> > </xsl:matching-substring> > <xsl:non-matching-substring> > <n><xsl:value-of select="."/></n> > </xsl:non-matching-substring> > </xsl:analyze-string> > > > </r> > </xsl:for-each> > > > output is > > <n>500748</n> > <bibno/> > <ck>500748</ck> > <ttl>Set My People Free</ttl> > > > Regards DaveP. > > **** snip here ***** > > -- > DISCLAIMER: > > NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any > attachments is > confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the > content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the > sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it > and any attachments from your system. > > RNIB endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by > its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it > cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. > We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. > > Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and > any attachments are those of the author and do not > necessarily represent > those of RNIB. > > RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 > > Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk
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