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RE: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: comments on Dece mber F&O draft)
- From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter dot Hunsberger at stjude dot org>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:19:26 -0600
- Subject: RE: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: [xsl] comments on Dece mber F&O draft)
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> > It's just another way of matching templates, not a whole new concept???
> well it depends if you want to merge with apply-templates on text nodes
> or whether you want to keep the normal templates on text nodes and have
> these doing something else (I think)
>
I suppose having two attributes could be troublesome: what happens if they
are both specified? Then again, that could be really powerful (talk about
opening your self up to non-intuitive behavior!) However, if you need to
separate out the behaviors I think modes would work just fine? All your
regex cases might end up using the same mode, but at least you don't have to
specify yet another tag...
> anyway it wasn't a fully worked out proposal, i hadn't even seen it
> written down before I stared replying to jeni's email, it just slipped
> out:-)
>
> However I think something along those lines could be made workable.
I haven't had the time to follow the whole discussion, but I hadn't seen
anything along the lines of what you proposed before. It looked interesting
enough that I actually had to stop and reply. I do suspect something like
this could be useful.
Peter Hunsberger
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