Re: Parsing XML files as text with collection()

I suspect the history here is that I implemented "?" as ".?" because that's the meaning I grew up with and forgot that UNIX globs were different, and then when I disccovered the discrepancy, decided to leave it in the interests of compatibility.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 9 Oct 2020, at 22:34, Chapman Flack <chap-JULfBfA8satPFr4CO1/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tangentially, I just took a look at the documentation for this, and saw
> 
> https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation/sourcedocs/collections/
> 
> More generally, the pattern is converted to a regular expression by
> prepending "^", appending "$", replacing "." by "\.", "*" by ".*",
> and "?" by ".?"
> 
> Is that a typo? I would think the regex equivalent of glob "?" to be
> simply "." and not ".?".
> 
> Regards,
> -Chap
> 
> 
> On 10/09/20 15:43, Michael Kay wrote:
>> This is very much the kind of use case for which uri-collection was introduced.
> 
> 
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