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RE: xsl:analyze-string trouble or Saxon 7.3 bug?

Subject: RE: xsl:analyze-string trouble or Saxon 7.3 bug?
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:06:09 -0000
stylus studio 7.3
The correct behavior is that the whole non-matching string should be fed
to the xsl:non-matching-substring instruction.

Sounds as if I need to add an extra test case. As you know, Saxon 7.x is
"experimental" - which really means I rely a lot on users for the
testing.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Gunther Schadow
> Sent: 19 December 2002 21:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xsl:analyze-string trouble or Saxon 7.3 bug?
> 
> 
> Hi, where does the XSLT 2.0 spec say that neither 
> matching-substring nor non-matching-substring is executed if 
> there is no occurrence of any text matching the regex? Is 
> this a bug in Saxon 7.3?
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> <xsl:transform version="2.0"
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
>    <xsl:variable name="data">
> Palaver palaver pullover andover hover mover bother brother mother.
>    </xsl:variable>
> 
>    <xsl:template match="/">
>      <xsl:analyze-string select="$data" regex="diagnosis">
>        <xsl:matching-substring>
>        	<FOUND><xsl:value-of select="."/></FOUND>
>        </xsl:matching-substring>
>        <xsl:non-matching-substring>
>          <NOT><xsl:value-of select="."/></NOT>
>        </xsl:non-matching-substring>
>      </xsl:analyze-string>
>    </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:transform>
> 
> this finds nothing at all, just discards the string, when I 
> ask for some regex that is in the string then it works as expected.
> 
> I can't find the specification saying that the string not 
> matching at all is a special case. And if it does, then isn't 
> it a bit awkward? Wouldn't the intuitive behavior be that the 
> whole non-matching text gets fed to the 
> non-matching-substring side of it?
> 
> thanks,
> -Gunther
> 
> -- 
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    
> gschadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for 
> Health Care
> Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School 
> of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960                         
> http://aurora.regenstrief.org
> 
> 
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