Re: [xml] Problem validating regexp.

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

fred basset wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In my schema file I have a "function_name_t" type specified as :
>
>     <xs:simpleType name="function_name_t">
>         <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>             <xs:pattern
> value="[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\s_\-\.']{0,30}[a-zA-Z0-9]"/>
>         </xs:restriction>
>     </xs:simpleType>
>
> I basically want to specify a function name as being at least two
> characters
> long, at most
> 32 chars long, but it cannot start or end with any non alpha, non numeric
> chars.  Certain chars such
> as underscores and spaces are OK in the middle however.
>
> I would have expected the string "aa" to pass validation with the above
> expression, but it does not.  I'm using
> libxml2 version 2.6.26.  It does validate when I run the schema and XML
> file
> through XMLSpy however.
>
> Any ideas what is wrong?

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425542.  Should be fixed in
SVN.

Bill