Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote on 04/06/2010 11:40:02 AM:

> Please respond to veillard

>
>   Ah, okay, I understand now !
>
> > I had a lot of problems finding a way to require a $ as first letter and I
> > ended up having to use the [\\$]{1} construct. Also I could not find a
> > switch for non-case-sensitive string comparison like other regexes have
> > (?i) or \i for example... I suppose there is none.
>
>   right. We are using XML Schemas datatype here, and the regexps are
> defined in this appendix
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs
> character $ has no special meaning in XML so doesn't need any escaping
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nt-SingleCharEsc
>
>     <param name="pattern">$[a-zA-Z0-9_]+</param>
>
> should just work fine I think, can you try ? If yes that's worth fixing
> before the push :-)

$ is the end of line indicator in regular expressions. I needs to be escaped, at the least.

I did push it already.

   Stefan

>
> [...]
> > > I just find parameter-name/parameter-value a bit too generic names,
> > > if you could make them more specific to the task, like
> > >    filter-param-name / filter-param-value
> > >
> > > but it's minor, and it's good to have updated schema and augmented
> > > testing
> >
> > Ok, so I will rename those two to the names you suggest. Should I post
> > again before pushing it to the repository?
>
>   nahh, fine !
>
> Daniel
>
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