Re: Could not use matches in Regular Expression (XSLT

Gentlemen,

Thank you very much for your suggestion that has worked perfectly.
I did left out the single quotes in the following line:

<xsl:when
test="$TELEPHONE_AREA_CODE = 'FAIRYLAND'">

It was a midnight cut-and-paste
minor blunder.

Btw, so if I want a combination of 2 pattern matching then it
would be along the line of the following:

          matches( ., '^4\d{6}$ |
^6\d{5}$' ) or <xsl:if test="matches(.,'^4\d{6}$') | matches(.,'^6\d{5}$')">
          matches(., '^4[0-9]{6} | ^6[0-9]{5}') or <xsl:if
test="matches(.,'^4[0-9]{6}') | matches(.,'^6[0-9]{5}">

At the sametime, is
it possible to setup dependencies between multiple pattern matches such as the
following:

          matches( ., '^4\d{6}$ & ^6\d{5}$' ) or <xsl:if
test="matches(.,'^4\d{6}$') & matches(.,'^6\d{5}$')">
          matches(.,
'^4[0-9]{6} & ^6[0-9]{5}') or <xsl:if test="matches(.,'^4[0-9]{6}') &
matches(.,'^6[0-9]{5}">

^6\d{5}$' won't be matched unless '^4\d{6} is
matched? Likewise, the same thing applies to '^4[0-9]{6} followed by
^6[0-9]{5}'?

Many thanks again,

Jack


----- Original Message ----
From:
Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 2 May, 2010 12:18:21 AM
Subject: Re:  Could not use matches in
Regular Expression (XSLT 2.0)

The pattern must be a string, so enclose it in
apostrophes. (Also,
there is one opening bracket missing.) To have an exact
match, use '^'
and '$' to anchor at the beginning and the end. You may
simplify using
a repeat count (and \d for digit). All together now:

  
matches( ., '^4\d{6}$' )

-W

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jack Bush
<netbeansfan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Forum members,
>>
>> I
>> am new to
XSLT 2.0 and would like to do the following basic numeric string pattern
>>
matching using regular expression:
>>
>> <xsl:template
match="ns:p[ns:strong='Telephones:']">
>>  <xsl:choose>
>>    < -- If global
parameter $TELEPHONE_AREA_CODE equals to FAIRYLAND -->
>>    <xsl:when
test="$TELEPHONE_AREA_CODE = ''FAIRYLAND">
>>      <xsl:for-each
select="ns:a">
>>      <-- Only accept the phone number that starts with 4
follow by six digits....   --->
>>        <xsl:if
test="matches(.,4[0-9][0-9][0-9]0-9][0-9][0-9])">
>>        
 <phone_number><xsl:value-of select='.'/></phone_number>
>>        </xsl:if>
>>      </xsl:for-each>/>
>>  ......
>>
>> However, it is picking up phone
numbers starting with 1 instead. Also tried the starts-with() with the same
outcomes.
>>
>> I am using JDK1.6.19, Netbeans 6.7, JDOM 1.1, Saxon 9.1 on
Windows XP.
>>
>> Your assistance would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in
advance,
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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