RE: [xsl] Different regex behaviour on Windows & Linux using Saxon

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saxon contains code designed to mask the differences between the regex
behaviour on JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5, and it seems it is failing to mask the
difference in this instance. I will investigate.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AAS Contractor [mailto:AAS.Contractor@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 August 2007 16:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Different regex behaviour on Windows & 
> Linux using Saxon
> 
> David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 30/08/2007 15:25:03:
> 
> > saxon converts the xpath regex to a java regex and the java regular 
> > expression handler changed a lot (at java 1.4 or 1.5, I can't 
> > remember) and so saxon has to use different code depending 
> on the jvm 
> > being used (as far as i recall) so it probably matters more which 
> > version of java you have rather than whether it's windows or linux.
> 
> David,
> 
> You were bang on. The Win box was 1.5 and Linux box 1.4.2. 
> I've upgraded both machines to 1.6 and the regex now works as 
> expected.
> 
> Thanks a lot! 
> 
> Bruce
> 
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