Re: [xsl] XPath expression to convert XSD enumerations into aregex, longest value first

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 12:36 +0000, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Even sweeter and more sugary
>
> let $backward := function($s) { - string-length($s) }
> return /*/xs:restriction/xs:enumeration/@value => sort((), $backward)
> =>
> string-join('|')

This follows a principle that comes up in the XSLT 3 course i teach -
give names to concepts to break down expressions, so that they are easy
to read and to change later.


(having been doing some C stuff recently i keep reading the /* as
starting a comment, though!)

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