Re: [xsl] Escaping Curly Braces in Regex

rowan(_at_)sylvester-bradley(_dot_)org wrote:

> If in an XSLT 2 regular expression I want to match a literal curly brace,
> what do I have to put in the regex?
>
> For example, if my input string is "  {some text}"
>
> And I want to match any string that is enclosed in curly braces, with
> optional whitespace before and after, I've tried:
>
> matches(., '^\s*{.+}\s*$')
> matches(., '^\s*{{.+}}\s*$')
> matches(., '^\s*\{.+\}\s*$')
> matches(., '^\s*\{{.+\}}\s*$')
>
> There are inside a predicate inside a select attribute in my XSL file. All
> are rejected as syntax errors.
>
> What's the right way of doing this?
This
  matches(. , '^\s*\{[^\}]+\}\s*$')
works for me with Saxon and Altova.

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        Martin Honnen
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