Subject: [xsl] A question about the expressive power and limitations of XPath 2.0 From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:56:18 -0800 (PST) |
As I'm just starting to read the latest WDs, I'd greatly appreciate it if somebody could provide examples showing: 1. A problem, which cannot be easily solved by using "for", but which has a natural recursive solution. Calling user-defined functions within an XPath expression must be excluded, as we can do anything (e.g. recursion) within a user-defined function. 2. A (text processing), which cannot be solved (easily) by using regular expressions. David already mentioned a string enclosed in balanced parenthesis. Another example is a string consisting of equal number of 1-s and 0-s. It is known that any language defined by a CFG but which cannot be defined by a RE. I just need a small, and if possible meaningful, concrete example. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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