Re: [xslt] regexp extension?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:52:47AM +0100, Morus Walter wrote:
> Bruce R Miller writes:
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > I have a strong bias toward POSIX regexps
> > 
> > I kinda figured you would, and it's more keeping with 
> > standard-ness (although I'm partial to perl-style, myself).
> > 
> There is a free implementation of perl compatible regular expressions
> at http://www.pcre.org/
> So if you want the full power of perl re, you might also look at that
> one.
> (It's used by a number of prjects including python, so it should be
> possible to use it on a number of platforms. I don't know if that
> possibility comes out of the box though)

  Very clearly, I would prefer not to depend on another library being
installed. POSIX regexps are there, anything else requires installing
another library, I won't add this at least not in the default setup.

Daniel

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