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  • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
  • To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:13:26 +0100

"Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...> writes:

<snip/>

> I'm not sure I need this facility in XML Schema per se, what I would really
> like is an XSLT/XPath regular expression function to include variable
> bindings. Recursive parsing or character data in XSLT is a fairly ugly
> proposition at the moment, but something that is frequently needed in
> practical applications.

Hear, hear!  This is a much better idea than jamming microparsing into 
XML Schema.  Fits with the general 'sender/author must make right'
approach, too.

ht
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