[osis-core] Regex News!

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

Should not be a problem since non-breaking space is by definition not 
XML 1.0 whitespace.

 From the spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-S

S   ::=   (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> Sounds okay, but I'll go ahead and play the devil's advocate (read: look 
> at things from Troy's position)...
> 
> I think one of Troy's desires was to be able to encode _anything_ as a 
> valid osisGenRef, and I presume this change is partly/mostly intended to 
> placate him.  Since spaces are part of some morphology codes, how should 
> he encode those?  Non-breaking space?
> 
> If so, Troy, does that work for you?
> 
> --Chris
> 
> Patrick Durusau wrote:
> 
>> Greetings!
>>
>> The new addition to the regexes reads as follows:
>>
>> |(\\[^\s])
>>
>> This means that any single character (excluding space, including all 
>> Unicode (which means PUA) can be used in any of the OSIS regex 
>> expressions.
>>
>> Must be preceded by a "\" if the character is one of the ones we have 
>> reserved for use in ID or REF syntax.
>>
>> Those characters are: ".", ":", "!", "[", "]", "@", "-" and "\".
>>
>> This is only for the portion following the prefix, which is terminated 
>> by a ":".
>>
>> All applications are required to recognize the "\" as an escape 
>> character applying to the single character that follows it.
>>
>> Hope everyone is having a great day!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
> 
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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