Re: [bdbxml] Regular expressions in bdbxml

Gregory Burd <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:55:15 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.dbxml.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Aug 18, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Michael Beddow wrote:

>>  And even then, it's usually
>> just for POSIX 1003.2 regexes, as opposed to PCRE
>>
>
> I think users would expect the indexing support to be on W3C schema  
> regexes
> as per the XPath2 and XQuery specs.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050404/#regex-syntax
> Little point in the indexed-enabled regex support being a different  
> flavour
> from the standard-compliant one already supported, though not  
> currently
> index-assisted.

If/when we do regex support we will favor the standard first, then  
user/customer requirements beyond the standard second.

-greg



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