Is <pattern value="(.)+\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)"/> allowed? from Ross Thompson on 2001-10-17 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Ross Thompson <rthompson@contivo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:51:10 -0700
To: Stanley Guan <Stanley.Guan@oracle.com>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-ID: <15309.50446.361650.6598@localhost.localdomain>

Stanley Guan writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Please see the following discussions for details.  But, is the
 > following regular expression allowed?
 >     <pattern value="(.)+\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)"/>

Yes it's allowed.  It could be expressed slightly more simply as

    <pattern value=".+\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)"/>

which is exactly equivalent.

- Ross

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