- From: Tim Bagot <tim@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:03:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
One thing people seem to have missed is that in most cases it would be possible to simplify the regular expressions quite considerably, by using the fact that the attribute in question has a limited range of allowable values, or even that it will take only a few different values in the documents to which the style sheet applies. For instance, when matching the lang attribute, there is no need to allow for the fact that its value might be "franc" or "free" because this should never be the case; I'm not saying that it can't be the case, but if you write invalid markup you cannot reasonably expect it to behave sensibly. Tim Bagot
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