Re: [xsl] Ungready Flag on Regex

On 08.10.2020 16:26, Liam R. E. Quin liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org wrote:
> You want [^*]*?
Thinking of the brilliant potential for misunderstanding that this 
answer entails.
Christophe: I don't understand why you are asking me whether I want [^*]*.

Jokes aside, I think you need the non-greedy question mark modifier, but 
not on [^*]*. You use it to make .* non-greedy. Otherwise it will stop 
at the first '*' that it encounters.
This works:

<xsl:template name="xsl:initial-template">
  <doc>
    <xsl:analyze-string
      select="'Comments are delimited by **/* */** or prefixed by **//**'"
      regex="\*\*(.*?)\*\*">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <b>
          <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
        </b>
      </xsl:matching-substring>
      <xsl:non-matching-substring>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </xsl:non-matching-substring>
    </xsl:analyze-string>
  </doc>
</xsl:template>
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