xsd regular expression query

[rorymo]

I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
valid in an xml doc as follows:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />

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:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />

But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
text.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
Rory

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* ro****@gmail.co m wrote in comp.text.xml:

>I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
valid in an xml doc as follows:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />

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:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />

But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
text.

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

([a-z]|'[^']*')*

if the first set of characters was a-z.
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[rorymo]

On Mar 30, 2:02 pm, Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjo...@hoehrma nn.dewrote:

* [e-mail] m wrote in comp.text.xml:

I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
valid in an xml doc as follows:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />

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:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />

But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
text.

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

([a-z]|'[^']*')*

if the first set of characters was a-z.
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Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: [phone] ·http://www.bjoernsworld.de
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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:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MMMM MyYear
MyDay, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MyMonth yyyy

so MyDay, MyYear and MyMonth appear in single quotes in the xml file
and are valid.

[usenet]

On 30 Mar, 14:30, [e-mail] m wrote:

On Mar 30, 2:02 pm, Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjo...@hoehrma nn.dewrote:

* [e-mail] m wrote in comp.text.xml:

>I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
>valid in an xml doc as follows:

><xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />

>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:

><xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />

>But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
>text.

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

([a-z]|'[^']*')*

if the first set of characters was a-z.
--
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@h oehrmann.de ·http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: [phone] ·http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 ·http://www.websitedev.de/

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:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MMMM MyYear
MyDay, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MyMonth yyyy

so MyDay, MyYear and MyMonth appear in single quotes in the xml file
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It looks to me that Björn'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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[rorymo]

On Apr 3, 12:46 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

On 30 Mar, 14:30, [e-mail] m wrote:

On Mar 30, 2:02 pm, Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjo...@hoehrma nn.dewrote:

* [e-mail] m wrote in comp.text.xml:

I have a regular expression that allows only certain characters to be
valid in an xml doc as follows:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*" />

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:

<xs:pattern value="^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]*('*)*" />

But this only works if the characters in quotes appear after the other
text.

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

([a-z]|'[^']*')*

if the first set of characters was a-z.
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Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: [phone] ·http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 ·http://www.websitedev.de/

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:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MMMM MyYear
MyDay, d. MMMM yyyy
dddd, d. MyMonth yyyy

so MyDay, MyYear and MyMonth appear in single quotes in the xml file
and are valid.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

It looks to me that Björn'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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Tech-Know-Ware Ltd
for XML to C++ data binding visit
http://www.tech-know-ware.com/lmx/
http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/
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The pipe(|) in you regular expression means 'or' right? If so then you
can only have the characters dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\ OR characters in
quotes but not both in the same string so you can have:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
OR
'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'
But not

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

Does this make sense?

[usenet]

On 4 Apr, 17:08, [e-mail] m wrote:

On Apr 3, 12:46 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

....

It looks to me that Björn'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?

The pipe(|) in you regular expression means 'or' right? If so then you
can only have the characters dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\ OR characters in
quotes but not both in the same string so you can have:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
OR
'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'
But not

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

Does this make sense?

But that's then wrapped in a set of brackets and a *. So you can have
any number of occurences of:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
OR
'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

which means you can have:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

Note the pattern mentioned earlier is wrong. To match Bjorn's
suggestion it should not have had the first ^, so it becomes:

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

I recommend loading the pattern into whatever is the most convenient
regular expression parser for you such as Perl, PHP, Java, C#,
Javascript, and developing a number of test cases. Then check that
each one passes or fails as is appropriate. Then where there's
errors, list them here.

If you don't have a convenient regular expression engine locally you
might be able to download a pure regular expression tester, or do
something on the web such as: http://www.nvcc.edu/home/drodgers/ce...est_regexp.asp

BTW - when testing a regular expression destined for a schema on a
normal regular expression engine, remember to put ^ and $ anchors
around it.

HTH,

Pete.
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Tech-Know-Ware Ltd
for XML to C++ data binding visit
http://www.tech-know-ware.com/lmx/
http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/
=============== =============== ===============

[rorymo]

On Apr 4, 5:40 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

On 4 Apr, 17:08, [e-mail] m wrote:

On Apr 3, 12:46 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

...

It looks to me that Björn'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?

The pipe(|) in you regular expression means 'or' right? If so then you
can only have the characters dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\ OR characters in
quotes but not both in the same string so you can have:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
OR
'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'
But not

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

Does this make sense?

But that's then wrapped in a set of brackets and a *. So you can have
any number of occurences of:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
OR
'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

which means you can have:

dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$ e'

Note the pattern mentioned earlier is wrong. To match Bjorn's
suggestion it should not have had the first ^, so it becomes:

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

I recommend loading the pattern into whatever is the most convenient
regular expression parser for you such as Perl, PHP, Java, C#,
Javascript, and developing a number of test cases. Then check that
each one passes or fails as is appropriate. Then where there's
errors, list them here.

If you don't have a convenient regular expression engine locally you
might be able to download a pure regular expression tester, or do
something on the web such as:http://www.nvcc.edu/home/drodgers/ce...est_regexp.asp

BTW - when testing a regular expression destined for a schema on a
normal regular expression engine, remember to put ^ and $ anchors
around it.

HTH,

Pete.
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Tech-Know-Ware Ltd
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I have it working now. Thanks a lot to all who replied.

-Rory.