RE: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: [xsl] comments on Dece mber F&O draft)

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jeni wrote:

> > this works surprisingly well in omnimark, although I thought it odd
> > when I first saw it. It also allows you to grab nested strings
> > rather than having to reconcatenate #1 #2 etc for example (in a
> > mixture of omnimark and sed/perl syntax)
> 
> It does sound really neat - I always get lost about which bracket I'm
> on in a regular expression!

If its any help, the Omnimark 'way of working' is so straightforward
that even I got it within minutes.

It ?was? a very widespread tool for uptransforms, i.e. going into
XML/SGML, and has the power to do it easily.

I'd go for that, on simplicity alone.

Regards DaveP

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