[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Comments in XPath / XSLT regular expressions?
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 08:45, Abel Braaksma Online wrote: > Dear List, > > The regular expression syntax used in XSLT and XPath is largely based on > Perl's regular expression syntax. Perl added a very useful construct to > their regular expression dialect: the /x modifier. It gives "whitespace > freedom" and allows for comments inside regular expressions. It was a > great enhancement at the time, especially for moderate to difficult > regexes. As I see it, XPath 2.0 has that flag too. See XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, section 7.6.1.1 Flags: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#regex-syntax Cheers, Frans
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