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Re: Validate an XPath with regex

• To: nielspeter@n...
• Subject: Re: Validate an XPath with regex
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:34:03 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3B1C9D22-47A6-11D6-8473-000502CB905D@n...> (messagefrom Niels Peter Strandberg on Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:30:33 +0200)
• References: <3B1C9D22-47A6-11D6-8473-000502CB905D@n...>

> Shouldn't it be possible to validate the syntax of an XPath string using 
> regular expressions.

No. You at least need to be able to match () pairs, this requires
counting, so can't be done with a regular expression.

David

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