RE: [relax-ng] future TC work

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

I made an error. RELAX NG can already support regular expressions via the
pattern parameter with XML Schema datatypes:

<element name="phone" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
 <data type="string">
  <param name="pattern">\(\d{3}\)\d{3}-\d{4}</param>
 </data>
</element>

Works with MSV but not Jing. I was happy to make this discovery today.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:20 AM
To: Michael Fitzgerald
Cc: RELAX NG List
Subject: Re: [relax-ng] future TC work


Michael Fitzgerald wrote:

> A few things I hope we consider:
>
> - Identity constraints: key/keyref mop up


This will be rather more than a "mop up".  One possible, if hacky,
way to do it is to create a datatype library providing "key" and
"keyref" with several required parameters: document URI, root
of keyspace (as a restricted XPath), keyed object (ditto),
key in keyed object (ditto).


> - Non-XML syntax: an additional committee spec? I think people like it.


Yes, yes!


> - Regular expressions: something natural like this (I don't care what the
> <regex> element is called)


I think the Right Thing here is to add a regex parameter to the

default datatype library.  Almost everything that XML Schemas datatypes
do can be described with regexes if carefully enough crafted.

*Whether* this is worth doing is another matter.

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