Subject: Re: [xsl] Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time soon? From: Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:39:59 -0500 |
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 03:11 +0000, Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > Thank you, Liam. > > I will have a look at the W3C Bugzilla and will try to add a feature > request. Cool. The worst that can happen is someone can tell you it' already there, or that we won't do it in this version :) Your "bug"/request should be filed against XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators in this case, because that's where replace() and matches() are defined. > It's good that it's so relatively easy to have features > included in the language. W3C Process requires Working Groups to consider all public comments. Of course, they might turn round and say "no" :-) > The reason why this is needed is to be able to find all kinds patterns > in XML files, as a kind of linguistic quality control. Lack of > lookaround assertions is a serious limitation when using XSLT to > generate reports based on the input XML document. Actually I 100% agree, I use them in other languages. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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