Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a middle name consists of a letter followed by a period and nothing else ?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a middle name consists of a letter followed by a period and nothing else ?
From: "Pieter Lamers pieter.lamers@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 12:07:49 -0000
linguistic comment: Dutch convention to abbreviate names Theun and Christiaan as Th. and Chr. respectively. Your rigidity could flag 'Th.' as incorrect where it is not.

On 02/06/2016 13:41, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


On 02.06.2016 13:38, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
((matches(MI, '[A-Z]\.')) and (string-length(MI) eq 2))

matches(MI, '^[A-Z]\.$')



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