Re: [xsl] Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time

Subject: Re: [xsl] Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time soon?
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:33:04 +0000

On 01/03/2013 11:02, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex wrote:

On 01.03.2013 11:40, Michael Kay wrote:
(b) they wanted to exclude anything that didn't make sense in an
international Unicode context (so things like word boundaries were
immediately suspect)
If they had been concerned about what is a word constituent and what is not in a certain language, they wouldnbt have included \w and \W in http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#cces

You're assuming a rational and logical process. You clearly haven't worked on a standards committee.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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Re: [xsl] Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time soon?
- James Fuller - 1 Mar 2013 08:59:51 -0000
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    - James Fuller - 1 Mar 2013 17:25:00 -0000
      - Michael Kay - 1 Mar 2013 17:40:09 -0000
      - James Fuller - 1 Mar 2013 18:52:00 -0000
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