- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: 27 Jun 2003 10:46:37 +0200
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Hi, Many (most?) languages do accept octal and hex escapes (such as \x#20) in regular expressions. The rec is clear (IMO) that these escapes are not allowed (at least I haven't found them in the EBNF for patterns) and Xerces agrees and rejects them. However, I have a customer who insists using them, saying that they are mentioned in Microsoft's doc (but I haven't found where) and that MSXML 4.0 does accept them (which I can confirm). Can you confirm that these escapes are forbidden and that numeric entities should be used instead? Thanks Eric -- Did you know it? Python has now a Relax NG (partial) implementation. http://advogato.org/proj/xvif/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Schema languages tutorial (registration open): - July 7th (Portland, OR) http://makeashorterlink.com/?K27A527A4 - August 4th (Montreal, Canada) http://makeashorterlink.com/?U28A217A4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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