Re: [xsl] Ungready Flag on Regex

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's not the problem. Changing to <xsl:sequence .../> is worse, it 
creates some pseudo-atomic-values instead of text() nodes.

Christophe

Le 22/10/2020 C  23:48, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx a C)critB :
> On 22.10.2020 23:14, Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > For sure, regex are strange to me, even if I think they are really 
> > usefull.
> >
> > So, when a regex king give me the right regex to do exactly what I want,
> > I take this regex, and I adapt it to other similar use-cases.
> >
> > My first problem was with comments, and I've adapted it to other kind of
> > markers :
> >
> > **bold**
> > $$code$$
> > @@link@@
> >
> > The first two are Ok, but I can not make it run for the third case.
> >
> > I join the XSL, a XSpec file, I have one scenario that fails. If someone
> > could :
> >
> > B 1. give me the solution
> > B 2. explain me why it was failing
> > B 3. explain me why the solution works
> >
> > it would be really a good thing.
> >
> > In France, we now have a curfew at 9pm. There a lot of beer that can not
> > be sold ; i may have a barrel for the guy who help me !
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Christophe
> >
> > Le 08/10/2020 C  16:54, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx
> > a C)critB :
> > > On 08.10.2020 16:26, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > You want [^*]*?
> > >
> > > Thinking of the brilliant potential for misunderstanding that this
> > > answer entails.
> > >
> > > Christophe: I don't understand why you are asking me whether I want
> > > [^*]*.
> > >
> > > Jokes aside, I think you need the non-greedy question mark modifier,
> > > but not on [^*]*. You use it to make .* non-greedy. Otherwise it will
> > > stop at the first '*' that it encounters.
> > >
> > > This works:
> > >
> > > <xsl:template name="xsl:initial-template">
> > > B  <doc>
> > > B B B  <xsl:analyze-string
> > > B B B B B  select="'Comments are delimited by **/* */** or prefixed by
> > > **//**'"
> > > B B B B B  regex="\*\*(.*?)\*\*">
> > > B B B B B  <xsl:matching-substring>
> > > B B B B B B B  <b>
> > > B B B B B B B B B  <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
> > > B B B B B B B  </b>
> > > B B B B B  </xsl:matching-substring>
> > > B B B B B  <xsl:non-matching-substring>
> > > B B B B B B B  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > > B B B B B  </xsl:non-matching-substring>
> > > B B B  </xsl:analyze-string>
> > > B  </doc>
> > > </xsl:template>
>
> I think the issue is your use of text value templates
>
> <xsl:non-matching-substring>{pt:replaceTextArobase(.)}</xsl:non-matching-substring> 
>
> that strips any elements; you need to use
> B  <xsl:non-matching-substring>
> B B B  <xsl:sequence select="pt:replaceTextArobase(.)"/>
> B  </xsl:non-matching-substring>