DTLL: Regex variable binding syntax

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:48:44 +0100
• To: www-archive@w3.org
• Message-ID: <lb4ur1tkijn1kkvdlsgr49pj7bp27hl0dm@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

Hi,

  Regarding <http://www.jenitennison.com/datatypes/DTLL.html>, for the
regular expression variable binding, I'm personally used to write Perl
code like

  my($year, $month, $day) = /^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})$/

so it would seem syntax like

  <regex for="year month day">([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})</regex>

would make more sense and should be easier to integrate into existing
regular expression engines. I personally find the (?[name]regex) syntax
very difficult to get used to...

regards,
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Received on Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:48:27 UTC