Subject: Re: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: [xsl] comments on December F&O draft) From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:20:04 GMT |
> the xslt regex functions as I understand it kinda need to work on XML input > files that are 'not structured enough???' meaning you're searching for > pattterns on text only inside the boundaries of parent nodes, right? well yes and no. That will be one use but xslt is adding a version of the document() command for grabbing external text files as a string so you could do that and then apply regexp matching to the whole lot. > ... answers on the matching orders Thanks for the clarifications. > (Steven's posting made me a greenhorn member of this list :-)) welcome to the club:-) > but pretty soon came down to 'we're not going to rewrite xsl.' good plan! (But I don't think it's one that will work as a basis for specifying XSLT 2:-) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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