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Posted to user@commons.apache.org by Stephen Colebourne <sc...@btopenworld.com> on 2005/03/31 00:09:07 UTC

Re: [jxpath] regular expressions in XSLT string operations

Apologies in advance for MY brevity:
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Stephen

depub2 wrote:
> Apologies in advance for my brevity: I did not ask for a workaround - I know
> workarounds exist.
> 
> I ASKED: Is there a PLAN for commons/jx-path to support at least some of
> the XPATH 2.0 features such as regex (fn:matches, fn:replaces, fn:tokenize)
> and other really helpful string operations?
> 
> IS THERE A PLAN?
> IS THERE A ROUGH DATE OF COMPLETION?
> 
> This planning information will help me determine if I should put a
> work-around in place.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hi David,
> 
>   I'm just a JXPath user.  Maybe you could implement fn:replaces,
> fn:matches and fn:tokenize as custom functions in JXPath.
> Check out
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/users-guide.html#Custom%20Extension
> %20Functions
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
> Adrian P.J.
> 
> depub2 wrote:
> 
> 
>>fn:replaces provides for regular expression based string match/substitution
>>within xslt. Is there a plan for commons/jx-path to support at least some
> 
> of
> 
>>the XPATH 2.0 features such as regex (fn:matches, fn:replaces, fn:tokenize)
>>and other really helpful string operations? I am using cocoon and could
>>*really* use these string functions!
>>
>>David
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> David E. Epperly
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> Inflection Technologies Corp.
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