Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - [OT] bugs in JDK regex engine ? [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] [OT] bugs in JDK regex engine ?To: xml-dev@-----.---.--- Date: 2/4/2008 8:51:00 AM Thanks Mike, for further help ... Because of personal interest, I'll keep on trying to implement the XML well-formedness application by making best use of JDK regex. When I am convinced, it's not possible to program further with regex, I'll give up ... On Feb 4, 2008 1:23 PM, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > "+" is a greedy quantifier, it matches the longest string it can. To match > the shortest string, use [^/]+? or you could try [^/<]+ > > But as Amy points out, we're not helping you. We're just taking you one step > further to demonstrating what is already known as a theoretical result - > this problem can't be solved using regular expressions. > > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi | ||||||
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