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Hi Folks, I want to find, in an XML Schema, all xs:pattern elements containing a regex that permits an unbounded number of characters. Here are examples of xs:pattern elements that I want to find: <xs:pattern value="A*"/> <xs:pattern value="A+"/> <xs:pattern value="A{0,.}"/> <xs:pattern value="A{1,.}"/> I do not want either of the following xs:pattern elements because -- due to the escape symbol -- they do not permit an unbounded number of characters: <xs:pattern value="A\*"/> <xs:pattern value="A\+"/> I created an XPath 2.0 expression to find the desired xs:pattern elements: xs:pattern[ contains(@value, '*') or contains(@value, '+') or contains(@value, '{1,}') or contains(@value, '{0,}') ] Eek! That is not correct. It incorrectly returns the xs:pattern elements with escaped asterisk and escaped plus symbols: <xs:pattern value="A\*"/> <xs:pattern value="A\+"/> How to fix my XPath expression? Is the solution to add a second predicate: xs:pattern[ contains(@value, '*') or contains(@value, '+') or contains(@value, '{1,}') or contains(@value, '{0,}') ][ not(contains(@value, '\*')) and not(contains(@value, '\+')) ] Is that correct? Is that the best approach? Is there a better approach? Bonus points if you can answer this question: Is my XPath expression catching all xs:pattern elements that have a regex that permits an unbounded number of characters? Note: For reasons that I will not explain, the XPath expression must be an XPath 2.0 expression. /Roger
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