Re: Regex problems with XMLBeans

Robert,

Thanks very much for this information.

T


On 2/14/2014 6:34 PM, robertlazarski . wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:14 PM, T. Allen<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I did not receive any replies about this problem but was able to get past
>> it.  Changing the regex from:
>> <xsd:pattern value="^(NA|UN).*"/>
>>
>> to:
>> <xsd:pattern value="(NA|UN).*"/>
>>
>> fixed the problem.  It seems XML Beans does not interpret the leading ^
>> symbol correctly.  Is this by design or should I create a JIRA?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> T
>>
> Glad to you found the problem. While I have used xmlbeans with axis2,
> I never used regex like that with it and didn't have any advice.
>
> Looking here though indicates that this is by design:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#regexAppendix
>
> "the expression language does not contain the metacharacters ^ and $,
> although ^ is used to express exception, e.g. [^0-9]x" .
>
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