RE: [xsl] xslt regex escaping

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

I don't know much about escaping regular expressions in XSLT2, but depending 
on whether you have single or multiple lines and how you manage them, you 
may have problems on your evaluations perhaps being too greedy.

That is, the first expression might take all text untill the last "]" in the 
input, leaving "Windows Metafile Library" for the second expression.

But this is perhaps not your problem?

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)


> Given a source of
>
> components['kdemultimedia'] = "Multimedia applications for the K Desktop
> Environment (KDE).";
> components['m4'] = "The GNU macro processor.";
> components['hwcrypto'] = "Hardware cryptographic accelerator support.";
> components['doxygen'] = "A documentation system for C/C++.";
> components['aspell-de'] = "German dictionaries for Aspell.";
> components['perl-XML-Encoding'] = "A module for parsing encoded map XML
> files.";
> components['automake'] = "A GNU tool for automatically creating 
> Makefiles.";
> components['binutils'] = "A GNU collection of binary utilities.";
> components['startup-notification'] = "Library for tracking application
> startup";
> components['libwmf'] = "Windows Metafile Library";
>
> I'm looking for a regex to pick out
> kdemultimedia and
> Multimedia applications for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
>
> I.e the string after
>  components\['(.*)'\] = \"(.*)\"
>
> and I'm having trouble with the escaping.
>
> Question. Is it possible to escape both quotes  (single and double)
> in a analyze-string regex attribute?
>
> I realise I can work round it;
> Just wondering if the attribute quoting is getting in the way too much?
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards DaveP.
>
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