Re: Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time

alternately, you may find that some processors 'bend the rules a
little' eg. I think (I maybe wrong) basex for example may allow
lookbehind/lookahead.

unsure about the original reason to restrict regex, as it seems to
just confuse people when a regex they lovingly crafted elsewhere
doesn't work (not that the various java, Perl, etc schisms help).

I am all for upgrading regex expressions, feels like very low hanging
fruit to me.

J


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Manuel Souto Pico
<m.soutopico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been using XSLT/XPath for some time to find patterns in
> (XML-based) XLIFF files, but now I'm going to need more complex
> regexps (e.g. positive/negative lookaround/lookbehind/lookahead, aka
> zero-width assertions, or non-capturing groups) and I see that they
> are not supported.
>
> My question is whether there are plans to support these advanced
> features in the future. Does anyone know?
>
> I know .NET or Perl regular expressions support that, but I would
> rather stick to XSLT if I can. It makes my life much simpler.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Manuel Souto Pico