On 30 Mar, 14:30, ror...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2:02 pm, Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjo...@hoehrmann.de> wrote:
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> > * ror...@gmail.com wrote in comp.text.xml:
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> > >I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
> > >valid in an xml doc as follows:
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> > ><xs:pattern value=3D"^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />
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> > >What I want to do is also allow any unicode character that is enclosed
> > >in single quotes to also be valid, no matter where they appear. I
> > >tried the following:
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> > ><xs:pattern value=3D"^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />
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> > >But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
> > >text.
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> > You are looking for "(a character from a certain set, or the character '
> > followed by zero or more characters except the character ' followed by
> > the character ') zero or more times", i.e. something like
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> >   ([a-z]|'[^']*')*
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> > if the first set of characters was a-z.
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> Not quite - I want to allow the character(s) in quotes to be able to
> appear with the character(s) from the specified set but not in any
> particular place i.e. not necessarily at the beginning or end. For
> example, I want the following to be valid:
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> dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
> dddd, d. MMMM MyYear
> MyDay, d. MMMM yyyy
> dddd, d. MyMonth yyyy
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> so MyDay, MyYear and MyMonth appear in single quotes in the xml file
> and are valid.- Hide quoted text -
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It looks to me that Bj=F6rn's pattern achieves this.  (Which filling in
the dots would be:

(^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]|'[^']*')*

Can you do a test program and show some examples where it does not
work?

Cheers,

Pete.
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