Omar Siam wrote: > Using the java regular expression implementation you can use greedy > and some other things. The XSL and XQuery implementation according to > the standards does not allow this and so misinterpretes the regular > expression. See here:
I checked > https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#regex-syntax and also the https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs but did not find any mention of greediness. But then, I am not sure, whether I understood this from latter document: A ·regular expression· R is a sequence of characters that denote a set of strings L(R). When used to constrain a ·lexical space·, a regular expression R asserts that only strings in L(R) are valid literals for values of that type. For all ·atom·s S and non-negative integers n, m such that n <= m, valid ·piece·s R are: Denoting the set of strings L(R) containing: S? the empty string, and all strings in L(S). Now I am not quite sure what L(S) means. > You can tell Saxon to use a different regexp engine such as the > standard Java one: > https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation/functions/fn/matches.html The hint is much appreciated, though BaseX is my actual development target. I just mentioned Saxon and eXist, because I cross checked them and found the result to be interesting enough to be taken to the list (and still hope, that Christian chimes in and may find a good reason, to do it the other way around in opposition to the way it is now) -- Goody Bye, Minden jót, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Andreas Mixich
