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Re: [XSLT2.0] xsl:analyze-string(_at_)regex syntax too limited

2004-12-16 00:25:14
"Gunther" == Gunther Schadow 
<gunther(_at_)aurora(_dot_)regenstrief(_dot_)org> writes:

    Gunther> The boundary matcher matches a zero-width substring
    Gunther> between a character matching the character class
    Gunther> [A-Za-z_0-9] and a character matching the character class
    Gunther> [^A-Za-z_0-9] or vice versa.  </quote>

    Gunther> This is pretty clear. It may not make the
    Gunther> internationalization people very happy because I can't do
    Gunther> word-boundary matches on Hindi text. That's a true
    Gunther> concern.

So address it. Unicode report TR18 says (for Level 1 support):

RL1.4   Simple Word Boundaries
        To meet this requirement, an implementation shall extend the word 
boundary mechanism so that:

   1.

      The class of <word_character> includes all the Alphabetic values from the 
Unicode character database, from UnicodeData.txt [UData]. See also Annex C: 
Compatibility Properties.
   2.

      Non-spacing marks are never divided from their base characters, and 
otherwise ignored in locating boundaries. 

Level 2 provides more general support for word boundaries between
arbitrary Unicode characters which may override this behavior.

Level 1 support should certainly be met.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

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