[osis-core] Regex News

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

Tried taking the "|" out and the schema validates but not the test 
document?

Fails on Matt.1.1 when simply removing all the "|" from the osisIDType 
simple datatype.

Can try to find more time to run it through some more testing tomorrow 
if you really like the other syntax. (I think the regex syntax is a 
write-n-leave sort of thing that we will illustrate but rarely modify.

Actually Steve  has asked someone about including methods of referencing 
smaller parts into a larger regex for ease of writing.

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>
>>Guys,
>>
>>Don't have to include spaces but must include "|" to get the "or" 
>>behavior for the schema regex.
>>
>>Re-writing and testing, still looking at NOON for the next release.
>>
>
>Patrick,
>
>I'm not sure if this is the case for xs:pattern in Schema, but in Perl you 
>would only use | for strings, not characters (for which you would use []).
>
>So (a|b|c) and [abc] are equivalent.  But (abc|def) and [abcdef]{3} are 
>completely different.
>
>If you think (\p{L}|\p{N}|_) is easier to understand than [\p{L}\p{N}_] 
>then by all means, let's keep using that type of format.  There might be a 
>gain in efficiency by using the latter, but I don't think we need to care 
>about how efficiently documents are being validated.
>
>--Chris
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu