RE: regex help

Thanks, Boris, this looks like it does what I need.
 
Thanks also to Michael and Xan for their help, and Scott Tsao for pointing me at this list.
 
Bill
 
Bill Watkins 
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Boeing Satellite Operations and Ground Systems - Houston 
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From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:boris@codesynthesis.com]
Sent: Fri 1/5/2007 2:19 AM
To: Watkins, Bill
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org; Tsao, Scott
Subject: Re: regex help



Hi Bill,

Watkins, Bill <bill.watkins@boeing.com> writes:

>       <QuotedStringList>
>               "your dog.my_dog" "my_cat$your_cat"
>               "their_rat"
>       </QuotedStringList>
>
> [...]
>
>       <xs:simpleType name="QUOTEDNAME_TYPE">
>               <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>                       <xs:pattern value='\s*"\S([^"]|\s)+\S"\s*'/>
>               </xs:restriction>
>       </xs:simpleType>
>
>       <xs:simpleType name="QUOTEDNAMELIST_TYPE">
>               <xs:list itemType="QUOTEDNAME_TYPE"/>
>       </xs:simpleType>

The list-based approach won't works since you can have whitespaces inside
list values. In the example above your list will be chopped up as follows:
'"your' 'dog.my_dog"' '"my_cat$your_cat"' '"their_rat"'.


>       <xs:simpleType name="listOfQuotedStrings">
>         <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>               <xs:pattern value='(("[^"]*")\s+)*'/>
>         </xs:restriction>
>       </xs:simpleType>

This one won't work since it expects at least one whitespace after a
quoted string, even the last one.


>       <xs:simpleType name="listOfQuotedStrings">
>         <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>               <xs:pattern value='("[^"]*"(\s+"[^"]*")*)?'/>
>         </xs:restriction>
>       </xs:simpleType>

This one is almost there. The only thing you need to add is optional
whitespaces before the first quoted string and after the last (note
the newlines after <QuotedStringList> and before "your dog.my_dog"
as well as after "their_rat" and before </QuotedStringList> -- they
are part of the value):

<xs:pattern value='(\s*"[^"]*"(\s+"[^"]*")*\s*)?'/>


hth,
-boris


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