Re: [xsl] Regular Expressions in XPath 2.0

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't know if this is close or very different from the XPath 2.0
regexs, but this seems like an extensive tutorial:

   http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html



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On 4/21/07, Rashmi Rubdi <rashmi.sub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess XPath is not off-topic to this list, if it is then I'm sorry
> about this post.
>
> I have just started learning the 2.0 versions of XSLT and XPath and
> recently learned that Regular Expressions were introduced in XPath 2.0
> and were not in XPath1.0.
>
> I would like understand a few things about the Regular Expressions in
> XPath 2.0.
>
> According to the slide here:
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/XPath-2-0-User-Grp-HTML/slide060.html
> the regular expressions in XPath are taken from Perl.
>
> I've studied Regular Expressions in school a long time ago, but I've
> never learned Perl.
>
> I have a few questions
>
> 1) Are regular expressions in XPath 2.0 identical or are they similar
> to those in Perl?
>
> 2) What would be the best approach to re-learn Regular Expressions
> with respect to XPath 2.0, I know I have to first re-learn the basics
> of regular expressions too.
>
> I think there's a standard for Regular Expressions and each
> programming language specializes or deviates from the standard.
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> -Rashmi