Re: TMCL Regexp constraint
Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
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Hi Lars, [...] > Following the links you get to: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#regexs > which says: >> Unlike some popular regular expression languages (including those >> defined by Perl and standard Unix utilities), the regular >> expression language defined here implicitly anchors all regular >> expressions at the head and tail, as the most common use of regular >> expressions in ·pattern· is to match entire literals. > So the answer to your question is (b), which IMHO is as it should be. The answer is (a) "the boundaries are implicit". Best regards, Lars -- Semagia <http://www.semagia.com> <http://www.topicmaps.de/mailinglist/> German Topic Maps mailing list <http://tinytim.sourceforge.net/> Open Source Topic Maps engine <http://mappa.semagia.com/> Mappa - Python Topic Maps engine