- From: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:47:05 +0000
- To: Fredrik Öhrström <oehrstroem@gmail.com>
- Cc: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, public-ixml@w3.org
Fredrik Öhrström <oehrstroem@gmail.com> writes:
> I see another nice use case for a not construct:
>
> identifier: [L]+, ![L].
>
> This would be useful to terminate an identifier only at the end of the string of letters. The ![L]+ will not match anything, it will not generate any DOM/xml. It merely checks the next character.
That feels like it would be a significant departure from the current semantics where I would expect ![L] to match and consume one non-letter character.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica
Received on Saturday, 22 March 2025 07:47:12 UTC