Subject: Re: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: [xsl] comments on December F&O draft) From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:19:51 GMT |
> (unless there > would be some special unicode-endofline thing that would be intelligently > mapped onto by decoders?) there is a unicode LINE SEPARATOR (which is proposed to add as white space in XML 1.1) but probably the regexp engine ought be persuaded to do as XML does and consider any cr nl or cr nl pair as matching the end-of-line regular expression. You'd also want the matching to be capable of matching across line bounderies of course. (that is like emacs rather than sed: . matches any non line end character so .* doesn't eat your whole file, but [^a] matches any character not an a (including line ends). David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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