Subject: RE: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:45:25 -0000
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> Sweet! That seems to work... What is the "^\d+$" doing
> exactly? I've done a few searches and didn't come up with
> anything... where would its use be documented?
^ and $ anchor the match to the start and end of the string
\d matches any Unicode digit (not just 0-9 but non-Western digits too; for
0-9 you could use [0-9])
+ means one or more.
As far as the specs are concerned, you have to read
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#regex-syntax
in conjunction with
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs
but if you want something more digestible, Chapter 14 of my XSLT 2.0
Reference covers it all.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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