[relaxng-user] Latest proposal for smart regexes in RELAX NG

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

David Tolpin scripsit:

> No. This is so always. Because the locale only matters when documents
> are read or written. When documents are processed (validated) or
> matched against Unicode regular expressions, the encoding is always
> Unicode.

In XML Schema regexes, yes; not in all tools using regexes today.

> That's what I am saying; exactly for the same matter there is no
> string-regex-ish formulation for XML, there shouldn't be xml-regex-ish
> formulation for strings.

Regular expressions aren't strings: they have nesting.

> Is XML syntax for XML is a hangover from the past that ought to
> be discarded in favour of the compact syntax?

No.  And I'd like to see a compact syntax for my rx: proposal, but based on
its spirit, not a return to Posix (including WXS) style.

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