Thomas Beale wrote: > I also agree with Adam. A regex should be able to be used over a > population of strings (identifiers in this case) and have the effect of > filtering out what you want. ... > > Practically speaking this does not change the specifications, but I > suspect we should put some guidance in to the effect that regexes based > on full identifiers should be used in archetype slots. >
Surely the specifications should be stronger than just guidance. Existing tools that are massaging the regex will cease to work if they are given a full regex. It would be a breaking change, so I think it should be spelled out in the specification. Otherwise, tools are going to have to try to do some clever guesswork to decide whether a given pattern is intended to match the full archetype id or just the domain concept part of it. - Peter
