Subject: Re: [xsl] analyze-string help? From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:30:39 +0200 |
On 10 June 2012 10:45, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10/06/2012 07:46, Syd Bauman wrote: > > I think this principle of always using the simplest regex that does the job > is a very good one. Remember, even if the regex works on all your test > cases, there's a good chance someone in a year's time is going to come back > to it and need to change it. Complex regexes are intrinsically very hard to > debug, so it's a good idea to avoid them if you can. Then, a corollary of this argument would certainly be that the simplest available *technique* is a very good one. substring-before/after comes to my mind even though this splits on the first occurrence. A fn:string-split would be nice to have, but it's easy to implement. -W
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