Subject: Re: [xsl] Need an XPath expression which returns all xs:pattern elements containing a regex that permits an unbounded number of characters From: "David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:11:44 -0000 |
On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 16:46, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Carlisle devised a brilliant approach: > > Do a series of replace operations: > > remove all whitespace: > > replace(@value,'\s','') > > replace \-quoted characters by x: > > replace(@value,'\\.','x') > > replace {99,} constructs by * > > replace(@value,'\{[0-9]+,\}','*') > > Here are the replaces, inlined: > > replace(replace(replace(@value,'\{[0-9]+,\}','*'),'\\.','x'),'\s','') > > Here are the results of applying the replaces to some regexes: > > A* --> apply replaces --> A* > A+ --> apply replaces --> A+ > A\* --> apply replaces --> Ax > A\+ --> apply replaces --> Ax > A{0,} --> apply replaces --> A* > A{1,} --> apply replaces --> A* > A{5,} --> apply replaces --> A* > \\* --> apply replaces --> x* > > To implement "Find all xs:pattern elements that permit an unbounded number > of characters" do this: > > If the string resulting from applying the replaces > contains * or +, then the regex permits an > unbounded number of characters. > > David (or anyone), is this correct? > it's what I said but not correct (or I would rather say, I left you some further cases as an exercise) you need more normalisation eg '[*] matches one character as does [{0,}] so you need to replace something like \[[^\]*\]` before testing David > /Roger
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