Re: [xml] caret in regexp character class

[Per Hedeland <per hedeland org>]

On 2017-03-07 19:52, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 14:48 +0100, Per Hedeland wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > With libxml2-2.9.4, the regular expression [ab^cd] is equivalent to
> > [^cd], i.e. it matches all characters except 'c' and 'd'. However
> > from
> > my reading of
> > https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#regexs, 
>
>
> Compare XSD 1.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#regex which is
> clearer and more recent. The ^ doesn't need to be escaped and [ab^cd]
> should match any of 5 characters (as it does in Perl).
>
> Liam

Thanks for the pointer and the confirmation (also to Csaba Raduly)!
I have created https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779751 (with
patch).

--Per