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Re: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: comments on December F&O draft)
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: mpo at outerthought dot org
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:20:04 GMT
- Subject: Re: Regular expression functions (Was: Re: [xsl] comments on December F&O draft)
- References: <LOEAIGHAMOLFGJLAJOFPIEHBCFAA.mpo@outerthought.org>
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> 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
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