Re: [xsl] recognize character entities

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/31/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > strange is that the matches() regex allows only decimal values as
> > range 592 represents here hex 0250
>
> The regex syntax doesn't allow any numeric references in decimal or hex.
> You have to use a character. However before being passed to XPath, teh
> attribute is parsed by an XML parser so you can use any XML syntax for
> that character, named entity references (as defined in a dtd) teh
> character in the file's encoding,  decimal character references (as you
> have) or hex character references, which would use the & # x 0 2 5 0 ;
> syntax.
>
>  match="*[matches(substing(text()[1], 1, 1), '[&#592;-&#99999;]')]">
>
> It's probably simpler to just restrict the regex to the first character,
> rather than use substring:
>
>
>  match="*[matches(., '^[&#592;-&#99999;]')]">

Sorry I've joined this thread late, but if you want to check if a
character is within a certain range there's always
string-to-codepoints() .... it may well be faster.

cheers
andrew