Re: [xsl] Regular expression for matching sentences

[Carlo Liwanag <cliwanag@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for the replies. I just found out that it can be 
done without the \b just like how you suggested.
Thanks again. =D
James Fuller wrote:

> Carlo Liwanag wrote:
>
> > I am trying to match my text template to catch sentences (sentences 
> > will end in '.','?','!')
> > So that I can count the number of em-spaces on it. But I just don't 
> > know how to create it without using \b (because saxon probably does 
> > not support it). Is there an alternative? Please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Carlo
>
>
> /[A-Z].*\./
>
>
> matches anything that starts with a capital letter and ends in a full
> stop....though be warned, this can return false positives.
>
> gl, Jim Fuller