[Bug 1851] [F&O] back references to a group that was captured 0 times?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1851


ashok.malhotra@oracle.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Additional Comments From ashok.malhotra@oracle.com  2005-09-27 15:42 -------
The WGs decided on 9/27 to fix this bug by adding the following sentence to the
fourth bullet in section 7.6.1:

If no strings were matched by the nth capturing subexpression the back-reference
is accepted as matching a zero-length string.

The WGs also decided that back-references should be spelt with a hyphen.

Received on Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:45:43 UTC