RE: segmenting a paragraph

When you need to apply regex matching to text that crosses node boundaries,
in the past two approaches have been proposed:

(a) create a string in which the node boundaries are represented by some
recognizable textual markup (you could use saxon:serialize()), then apply
the regex processing, then reinstate the node structure (e.g. by using
saxon:parse()).

(b) do a deep copy, while processing each of the text nodes to replace the
significant features (such as end of sentence) by nodes (e.g. an
<end-of-sentence/> element). Then apply positional grouping techniques to
transform this into your target structure.

Neither is particularly easy, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Wendell

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