xml:grep (was Re: Why XML data typing is hard)

Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@Adobe.COM)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:06:35 -0500


At 4:00 PM -0500 12/1/98, Joel Bender wrote:
> Supporting grep content pattern matching doesn't
> seem like it would be any more difficult than namespaces, kinda like...

In order to support the WORLD WIDE web properly - it's a MUCH
harder problem, especially when dealing with Unicode (which is the
default for XML data).

See Techinical Report 18 by the Unicode Consortium, "Unicode
Regular Expression Guidelines" at
<http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/>.

Leonard
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