Re: [xsl] analyze-string regex

[Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 17:06 +0000, Rushforth, Peter wrote:
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> What I came up seems to work ok:
> 
>   <xsl:function name="ex:locationJson2Options">
>     <xsl:param name="json"/><!--           1    2                            3             4                              5                6                         7              8 9 10 11                  12         13                       14                     15 16                      17                                     -->
>     <xsl:variable name="regexps" select="'(\{.*?(&quot;title&quot;:.*?&quot;(.*?)&quot;).*?(&quot;qualifier&quot;:.*?&quot;(.*?)&quot;).*?(&quot;type&quot;:.*?&quot;(.*?)&quot;).*?((((&quot;bbox&quot;:.*?\[(.*?)\]).*?(&quot;geometry&quot;:.*?(\{.*?\})).*?\}{1,}))|((&quot;geometry&quot;:.*?(\{.*?\})).*?\}{1,})))'"/>
>     <xsl:analyze-string select="$json" regex="{$regexps}" flags="s">

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> I am glad it didn't lead to madness, [...]

It's subject to debate :-)
For example,
  "title" : "The \"liteness\" of Bering: a sales qualifier"
will probably fail.; that may or may not matter for you.

One way to deal with \ would be to replace \" with some unicode string
that you first checked didn't appear, and then your expression (modulo
putting \s in there instead of .* in places) would be simpler.

I'd also note you use &quot; a lot, so change them to " and use '....'
and &apos; instead. You can also build up a complex expression by making
smaller variables (with comments) and using concat() at the end.

Liam

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