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RE: Globbing versus Regular Expressions (was: Regular Associat

• To: "David Tolpin" <dvd@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Globbing versus Regular Expressions (was: Regular Associations)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:01:34 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Globbing versus Regular Expressions (was: Regular Associations)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Tolpin [mailto:dvd@d...] 
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:30 AM
>To: xml-dev@l...
>Subject:  Globbing versus Regular Expressions (was: 
>Regular Associations)
>
>- it does a different thing: XPath is a language for 
>addressing parts of
>  a document, Relax NG, and the way it is used in ARX, the 
>utility we are discussing,
>  assesses that a document matches a regular pattern. 

If you wrap boolean() around your XPath expressions and limit them to
expressions that evaluate to a node set then you have the same thing. 

>Note 1. However, I would find an XSLT-like language  that 
>provides XML regular expressions (similar to Relax NG) for 
>matching and selection more useful and convenient, if 
>occasionally less verbose, than XSLT; if string regular 
>expressions (which are peripheral to the area of XSLT) were 
>added, why XML regular expressions were not?

Sounds like XQuery. 

>Note 2. Actually, I mentioned in the original message that my 
>first thought had been to use XSLT for this purpose (and I 
>meant XPath, of course), and that I had realized later that 
>Relax NG is more appropriate. However, it was written at the 
>very end of the message.

Missed that part of your message. 

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