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Re: are the regular expressions over xml structure?

• From: Oleg Parashchenko <olpa@uucode.com>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:28:49 +0200

Hello Michael,

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:48:02 +0100
Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

...
> Well, there are certainly cases where it would be nice to match a 
> sequence of nodes that matches some pattern, rather than only matching 
> individual nodes: a generalization of xsl:for-each-group.

Exactly. Thanks a lot for an xslt-style code snipplet and the link to the
positional grouping paper.

Meanwhile, I've remembered a more demonstrative example then h1/p
grouping:

"element(image), element(caption), element(table[some condition])"

an image with the caption and a legend table is to be grouped. In my
xslt stylesheets, the grouping code is far away from readability and
maintainability. That's why I'm looking for a better approach.

> Michael Kay
> Saxonica


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Oleg Parashchenko  olpa@ http://uucode.com/
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