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Re: [xsl] XSLT Regex for Matching Curly Braces

2019-06-10 16:03:50
 
Hi David,
Thanks for pointing that out. Fortunately I've no requirement for nested 
brackets. Gratitude. . .small things, eh?
Don    On ‎Monday‎, ‎June‎ ‎10‎, ‎2019‎ ‎03‎:‎18‎:‎22‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, David 
Carlisle d(_dot_)p(_dot_)carlisle(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:  
 
\{{([^}}]+)\}}

That will be Ok as you do not have nested instances, {aaa{bbb}ccc}
it would match from the first { to the first } so {aaa{bbb}  which is
probably not intended. It is not possible in general (for arbitrary
depth) to match nested brackets with a regular expression (that's
essentially what is implied by "regular")

David

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 19:20, Don Smith dsmith_lockesmith(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

Thank you all,

I used Gerrit's suggestion <xsl:analyze-string select="." 
regex="\{{([^}}]+)\}}"> and it appears to work exactly as desired. Further 
testing TBA.

Thanks again,

Don

On ‎Monday‎, ‎June‎ ‎10‎, ‎2019‎ ‎12‎:‎32‎:‎41‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CDT, 
gerrit(_dot_)imsieke(_at_)le-tex(_dot_)de 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:


Agree, if expand-text is available (if one uses XSLT 3.0, for which there is 
almost no reason not to).

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Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Regex for Matching Curly Braces



On 10 Jun 2019, at 17:56, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex 
gerrit(_dot_)imsieke(_at_)le-tex(_dot_)de 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

If you want to use xsl:analyze-string with XSLT 2.0 (or 3.0), you can put the 
regex in a variable, like so:


  <xsl:variable name="regex" as="xs:string" select="'\{([^}]+)\}'"/>


I think it's even clearer to use

<xsl:variable name="regex" as="xs:string" 
expand-text="no">{([^}]+)\}</xsl:variable>



This way you avoid complications with single and double quotes as well as 
curly braces: the only characters that now have an XML or XSLT-defined 
special meaning are "&" and "<", and these fortunately don't have special 
meanings in regular expressions.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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