Re: [xsl] Regex groups / was: Re: [xsl] Move leading/trailing spaces outside (XSLT 2.0)

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Owen Rees wrote:
> --On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 17:54:49 +0100 Abel Braaksma wrote:
>
> > I.e., text is: "this is a text"
> > regex: (t(.+)(.*))
> >
> > will put the 't' in regex-group(1), the 'his is a text' in 
> > regex-group(2)
> > and nothing in regex-group(3)
>
> regex-group(1) will be 'this is a text' in this example, and will be 
> the same as the whole match. When groups are nested, the outer group 
> match results include the inner group match results.

Oops! You are so right. Some people do have very sharp eyes ;)

for completeness: the other groups, (2) and (3) remain as explained.

-- Abel