Re: [xsl] Backtracking and eternal loops caused by regular expressions matching: what to expect from implementations?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Backtracking and eternal loops caused by regular expressions matching: what to expect from implementations?
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:52:14 GMT
> I am under the impression that such behavior is not desirable, but I am 
> unsure if there is anything in the specs that says something about how 
> implementations should/must deal with this.

[ERR XTDE1150] It is a non-recoverable dynamic error if the effective
value of the regex attribute is a regular expression that matches a
zero-length string:  

David

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