RE: Regex string function question

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michael Kay wrote:

> > Why won't us put a prosal for a standardised [regexp] extension ?
> >
> Doing an extension function that tests whether a string matches a regexp is
> very easy, once you've found a definition of "regular expression" that
> everyone can agree on. An extension function that uses a regexp to extract
> parts of a string is much trickier.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 

The jakarta project has two regexp packages for Java:
http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/
http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html

Since XSL 2.0 isn't out yet would it be reasonable to add those kind of
extensions to a java based XSL processor using one of those libraries?

Has anyone tried this yet?

--Rick Anderson



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