Hi Folks,

The property mediator supports a pattern attribute which can be used to specify 
a regular expression. When specified, the value of the XPath expression is 
matched against this regex and the resulting group of the match is what gets 
assigned to the property. If the regex doesn't match, the mediator assigns the 
original value of the XPath expression to the property. 

SYNAPSE-890 argues that this behavior is wrong, and the mediator must assign 
the empty string to the property if the regex doesn't match. I'm not quite sure 
what the right behavior should be. Does anybody have any ideas? To me it's a 
contest between:

1. Assign the value of the XPath expression (current behavior)
2. Assign the empty string (behavior proposed in SYNAPSE-890)
3. Not set the property value at all - leave the current property value 
unmodified

Thanks,
Hiranya

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Hiranya Jayathilaka
Mayhem Lab/RACE Lab;
Dept. of Computer Science, UCSB;  http://cs.ucsb.edu
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