You, John Macdonald, wrote:
++
++ Asking the question whether the pattern:
++
++ print if /Perl is terrific/i;
++
++ matches which of the following lines:
++
++ perl<!-- capitalize? --> is terrific
++ perl is<? AUDIO heavenly chorus ?> terrific
++ Perl<fnote isbn="1-56592-149-6" /> is terrific
++ perl is<emph>not so</emph> terrific
++ perl <quot>is terrific</quot>, commented Bray
++ <!ENTITY adjective "terrific">perl is &adjective;!
++
++ The last one requires parsing of XML before it can be made to match.
++ Other than that, though, simply ignoring all of the metadata is
++ sufficient to match correctly on 1235 and to properly not match on
++ 4.
++
++ So, it looks like my memory is faulty - I had though that there was
++ at least one example that had text between a pair <xx> and </xx>
++ where the meaning of xx was such that the text should *not* be
++ considered for matching purposes. Unless the third line could be
++ written as:
++
++ Perl<footnote> Programming Perl, Wall et al., isbn="1-56592-149-6"
++ </footnote> is terrific
Perl<object src = "excl.gif">!</object> is terrific.
Perl is <img src = "not.gif" alt = "NOT"> terrific.
Abigail
