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Re: XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 - Assumptions

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 - Assumptions
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 13 May 2002 15:27:04 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:00, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> >Or you can use tools like Regular Fragmentations to break the lexical
> >parts down into markup-identifiable and unambiguous day/month/year
> >elements.
> 
> Or you could use a regular expression to do the same thing, and associate 
> the type with a name that identifies the regular expression to be used. And 
> allow other constraints, such as ranges, to be associated with the name.

That's pretty much precisely what Regular Fragmentations does, actually,
though it leaves constraints for a later stage in the pipeline.

> Ooops, I just reinvented XML Schema simple types.

Except that XML Schema doesn't let you do anything with the results of
the regular expression except binary "yes it is/no it ain't".  With
RegFrag, it's easy to say "this part is a XYZ and that part is a CBA."

I'm just pointing out that typing isn't the only option for markup
processing by far, and it may in fact be a very poor approach.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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