Subject: Re: [xsl] two regexp related questions From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:45:30 +0200 |
On 2011-05-19 21:16, Julian Reschke wrote:On 2011-05-19 20:51, Brandon Ibach wrote:For 2), if you're using the regex to both validate the input (making sure it conforms to the required syntax) and parse/extract the name/value pairs, you might be able to make the job easier by breaking these two tasks apart. Use the regex as you have it now to validate the input and then, if it matches, use a shorter regex that matches just a single name/value pair with analyze-string to do the actual processing.
-Brandon :)
That's more or less what I do know. But as long as the regex contains a repeating pattern, <xsl:matching-substring> will only be invoked once, and the regex-group function will only return the contents for the last match, right?
I think it depends on the implementation. I couldn't see anything in the spec about what regex-group(3) of ([a-z]+)=([a-z]+)(;([a-z]+)=([a-z]+))* should be. In Saxon, it's ';e=f' for your example, but in principle it could also be ';c=d'.
As Brandon pointed out, using analyze-string with a repeating pattern that matches the entire string is not the best approach. There are more natural approaches that work without recursion. I sketched two of them below. ..
value = name ( ";" param )* name = token param = token "=" (token | quoted-string) ...
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